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ALBERT  E.  FROST 

Secretary  from  1872  to  his  decease,  1917 


SUPPLEMENT 
TO  HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF 
EIGHTEEN  HUNDRED  AND 
SEVENTY-TWO 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE 
MIMXXI 


THE  ELM  TREE  PRESS 
Woodstock   Vermont 


PREFACE 

Like  other  grateful  class  historians,  I  would  give 
credit  to  those  whose  achievements  and  exemplary 
behavior  have  made  half-truths  unnecessary,  and 
would  also  give  a  trifle  of  equivocal  praise  to  some 
shy  and  super-modest  classmates  for  slowly  and  re- 
luctantly supplying  the  needful  information.  Yet 
in  reading  the  Prefaces  of  the  reports  of  other  class- 
es, I  am  convinced  that  this  lack  of  speed  in  respond- 
ing but  shows  the  truth  of  the  words,  "One  touch 
of  nature  makes  the  whole  world  kin,"  therefore  we 
will  not  appropriate  all  the  glory  to  '72,  such  as  it 
may  be. 

Every  one  of  the  Academic  Department  has  fur- 
nished his  report. 

The  general  plan  of  this  Supplement  follows 
Frost's  History. 

I  have  added  a  brief  report  of  the  Chandler  Scien- 
tific Department,  handi-capped  by  the  lateness  of 
applying  for  data. 

Of  the  forty  Academics  now  alive,  a  large  propor- 
tion are  more  active  and  in  better  condition  than  men 
of  their  age. 

A  summary  of  statistics  will  be  found  at  the  close 
of  this  report.  You,  classmates,  will  never  have 
quite  such  impressions  as  have  crystalized  in  my 
feelings  in  following  your  varied  lives  through  these 
mature  years.  It  came  to  be  a  real  family  affair, 
and  as  it  grew  upon  me  I  thought  of  that  little,  ten- 
der poem,  "The  Rosary"  : — 

"The  hours  I  spent  with  thee,  dear  heart, 
"Are  as  a  string  of  pearls  to  me ; 
"I  count  them  over,  every  one  apart, 
"My  rosary." 


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VI  HISTORY  CLASS  1872 


Do  you  forget  the  scene  when  in  1872  Chief  Jus- 
tice Brigham  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Massachu- 
setts marshalled  the  "thin  line"  of  his  class  at  their 
fiftieth  reunion  at  the  Chapel  and  introduced  the 
remnant  as  "my  colts?" 

Correspond  for  five  months  with  our  "colts,"  then 
and  then  alone  can  you  partially  understand  the 
tender  and  mellowing  effect. 

The  moving  picture  of  fine  aspirations,  especially 
good  realizations,  joys  and  sorrows,  and  withal  the 
plain  uplift  of  the  strong  resolve  and  high  purpose, 
was  not  unseen  by  me. 

When  "Fond  memory  brings  the  light  of  other 
days  around  me" .... 

"When  I  remember  all  the  friends  so  linked  to- 
gether" .... 

I  cannot  see  any  reason  for  the  sombre  shadows  of 
"Morituri  Salutamus." 

Let  us  pay  a  grateful  tribute  to  our  beloved  Sec- 
retary, Frost,  for  his  painstaking  labors  through 
many  years,  recording  in  his  fine  way  the  activities 
and  standards  of  achievements  of  each  one  of  the 
class, — just  as  brethren  sometimes  meet  and,  stand- 
ing with  bowed  heads  in  silence,  recognize  the  in- 
expressible depths  of  tender  regard,  "The  silent 
homage  of  thoughts  unspoken." 
Most  sincerely, 

GEORGE  B.  FRENCH, 
Secretary. 


V 


ACADEMIC  GRADUATES 

AUGUSTINE  VINTON  BARKER 

Bradenton,  Fla. 

The  Judge  continued  to  practice  law,  in  company 
with  his  son,  at  Ebensburg,  Pa.,  from  1902  to  1909, 
when  he  became  persuaded,  all  things  considered, 
that  he  was  entitled  to  a  cessation  of  his  strenuous 
life,  and  might  prudently  and  dutifully  devote  some 
time  to  diversions,  such  as  travel,  fishing  and  golf. 
My  observation  of  him  at  short  range  leads  to  the 
casual  and  kind  remark  that  he  desired  further  to 
enhance  his  skill  at  fishing  by  intensive  tutelage 
under  a  teacher  of  that  art  who  makes  a  specialty 
of  backward  pupils.  The  teacher  will  never  make 
out  the  marks  of  his  pupil,  being  a  kind  and  consid- 
erate man. 

Not  only  has  the  Judge  practiced  law  successfully 
in  important  matters,  but  he  has  been  identified 
with  banking  interests,  having  been  chief  promoter 
of  the  establishing  of  the  First  National  Bank  in  his 
town  in  1895,  a  bank  ranking  in  success  well  up  to 
the  head  among  similar  banks.  He  has  been  the 
Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  since  1895, 
Vice-President  of  the  Johnstown  Trust  Co.  since  its 
organization  in  1903,  and  for  several  years  a  Dir- 
ector of  the  Brandenton  Bank  and  Trust  Co.  They 
all  know  where  to  turn  for  wise  judgment.  He  was 
identified  with  bituminous  coal  mining  development 
in  his  own  county,  Cambria,  and  has  lived  to  see  the 
progress  of  production  from  nothing  to  sixteen  mil- 
lion tons  annually. 


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"Gus"  has  journeyed  thrice  from  Florida  in  his 
Cadillac,  1915-16-17,  with  his  son  and  son's  chil- 
dren, camping  en  route,  and  ended  each  trip  in 
camp  with  myself  and  family  at  Asquam  Lake,  N. 
H.  Our  common  exclamation  has  been,  "Why 
didn't  we  find  out  earlier  what  good  times  we  could 
have  together?"  Happy  days,  sure!  Thrice  I  and 
some  of  my  family  have  enjoyed  his  fine  hospitality 
in  Florida,  and  besides  all  that,  many  weeks  have 
been  spent  by  me  with  the  Judge  in  the  camps  of 
Maine,  trouting  and  hunting  birds.  A  more  con- 
genial comrade  cannot  be  found  in  camp  life,  with 
his  "Cheer  up,  Barstow,"  whether  he  did  or  did  not 
make  a  success  in  fishing  or  shooting.  No  sly  "dig" 
in  that  at  the  fortunes  of  war,  since  it  might  reflect 
on  the  teacher. 

The  winter  of  1916-17,  he  spent  touring  through 
Panama  Canal,  down  the  West  coast  of  South  Amer- 
ica, on  into  the  middle  region  of  lofty  peaks,  across 
land  to  the  East  coast,  and,  after  sizing  up  the  cities, 
returning  home  by  crooked  ocean  paths  to  escape 
German  cruisers.  From  August  1918  to  February 
1919,  he  toured  the  North  West,  visiting  Yellow 
Stone  Park,  Cal.,  and  the  South  West  gulf  states. 
He  claims  to  have  caught  by  some  kind  of  lure  a 
good  many  trout,  having  no  reliable  recorder. 

A  physical  infirmity  has  caused  him  no  end  of 
pain,  but  he  invariably  comes  through  by  his  won- 
derful grit,  "O'er  all  the  ills  of  life  victorious."  Al- 
though he  would  avoid  the  punishment,  if  protest 
would  be  protective,  I  could  not  refrain  from  this 
extended  treatment  of  one  who  richly  deserves  all 
the  flings  given  him.  "Spare  the  rod  and  spoil  the 
child."  He'll  have  the  last  word  by  reason  of  his 
vitality. 

His  wife  died,  January  17,  1915,  a  most  estimable 


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woman,  profoundly  interested  in  her  church  work 
and  many  institutional  matters. 

He  suffered  a  burden  grievous  to  be  borne,  in  the 
loss  of  his  only  son,  Fred  D.,  who  was  killed,  Oct. 
14,  1918,  at  the  age  of  42.  Fred  offered  himself  for 
Red  Cross  work  in  France  at  the  front.  He  sailed, 
June  17,  1918,  for  France,  and,  after  arriving,  was 
offered  a  Captain's  commission  for  an  assignment  in 
Paris,  but  he  insisted  on  being  sent  to  the  front,  and, 
according  to  his  choice  of  service,  was  commissioned 
a  1st  Lieutenant  and  assigned  to  outpost  duty  in  the 
advance  field  service.  At  the  urgent  request  of  of- 
ficers who  were  witness  to  his  spirit  and  efficiency, 
he  was  ultimately  attached  to  the  328th  Inf.,  82nd 
Div.,  A.  E.  F.,  and  on  account  of  his  exceptionally 
good  work  was  highly  commended  in  an  article 
published  in  the  Paris  Edition  of  the  Red  Cross  Bul- 
letin, headed  "Barker  of  Florida, "  which  was  copied 
by  the  various  editions  of  the  Bulletin  in  this 
country. 

His  last  work  was  in  the  St.  Mihiel  offensive  and 
in  the  Argonne.  Said  a  Lieutenant  from  Braden- 
town,  "Everybody  thinks  the  world  of  him."  Said 
a  Chaplain,  "During  the  entire  struggle  in  the  Ar- 
gonne, Lt.  Barker  displayed  his  bravery;  machine- 
gun  bullets  and  artillery  fire  did  not  prevent  him 
from  distributing  his  sweets  and  smokes  to  the  brave 
Americans;  he  sacrificed  his  life  in  line  of  duty." 
And  a  Captain  said,  "On  October  2nd,  Fred  and  I 
were  taking  supplies  to  a  dressing  station ;  the  Ger- 
mans shelled  us  and  I  was  wounded,  our  driver  was 
killed  and  Fred  had  a  very  narrow  escape."  On 
the  Sunday  before  Fred's  death  on  Monday,  he 
wrote  his  last  words  home,  having  been  blown  up 
twice,  being  very  close  to  the  German  machine-gun 
and  shell  fire  for  at  least  twelve  hours  a  day  for  a 


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week,  "I  am  well  but  pretty  thin,  old  and  a  little 
tired — I  can't  feel  that  I  have  done  much  in  this, 
but  at  least  I  haven't  been  a  slacker." 

The  next  day,  while  with  a  Chaplain  preparing  a 
body  for  burial,  he  was  killed  instantly  by  shrapnel, 
and  the  Chaplain  mortally  wounded.  His  end  was 
heroic,  and  his  body  lies  in  the  sacred  soil  of  France. 
He  might  have  listened  to  the  reasoning  that  there 
were  enough  younger  men  and  physically  stronger 
to  undertake  this  perilous  service,  men  without  wife 
or  children,  but  Fred  regarded  that  as  the  reasoning 
of  a  shirker,  and  there  was  nothing  of  that  in  his 
keen  sense  of  duty.  "Only  those  are  fit  to  live  who 
do  not  fear  to  die,  and  none  are  fit  to  die  who  have 
shrunk  from  the  joy  of  life  and  the  duty  of  life." 

Lieut.  Barker  was  cited  in  General  Orders  of  the 
Commanding  General,  "for  his  display  of  extraor- 
dinary heroism  and  disregard  for  his  personal  safe- 
ty, working  unceasingly  in  aiding  "the  wounded  and 
burying  the  dead,  as  an  example  of  courage  and 
self-sacrifice,  in  which  the  Commanding  General 
took  particular  pride." 

Fred  left  a  wife,  two  sons  and  a  daughter.  His 
widow  lives  at  Ebensburg,  Pa.  The  older  son, 
Frederick  Vinton,  graduated  from  Annapolis  Naval 
Academy  in  1919,  and  is  an  Ensign,  stationed  in 
1920  with  the  Asiatic  Squadron  at  Vladivostok,  but 
now  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  other  son,  William 
Griffith,  attends  Culver  Military  Academy  and  ex- 
pects to  graduate  in  1921  and  enter  Dartmouth. 
The  daughter,  Barbara,  attended  Abbot  Academy, 
Mass.,  one  year,  and  in  1919  changed  to  a  school  in 
Pennsylvania,  where  she  remained  through  1919- 
20  until  Christmas  vacation  when,  on  a  visit  to  her 
grandfather  and  aunt  at  Brandentown,  Fla.,  she 
was  stricken  with  tonsilitis  and,  after  some  three 


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weeks  of  agony,  passed  away  in  a  hospital  at  Tam- 
pa, Fla.,  Jan.  25.  Adored  by  the  Judge,  the  shock 
to  him  seemed  unsupportable,  coming  as  it  did  only 
two  weeks  after  his  brother  died  at  Ebensburg,  Pa. 

I  have  met  all  these  grandchildren  and  been  with 
them  in  Florida  and  New  Hampshire,  many  days, 
and  can  say  that  they  were  fully  worthy  of  all  the 
grandfather's  devotion. 

The  daughter,  Lovell,  married  Frank  S.  Gates, 
Oct.  30,  1907,  and  they  live  at  Harrington,  Del.,  he 
being  a  supervisor  in  the  Maintenance  of  Way  De- 
partment of  the  Pa.  R.  R.  Co.  The  other  daughter, 
Helen,  married  Harry  Land,  June  1,  1915.  He  en- 
listed, Aug.  1917,  in  the  U.  S.  A.  Aviation  service, 
trained  at  various  places  in  Texas,  was  commission- 
ed a  2nd  Lieutenant  and  sailed  for  France  in  May, 
1918,  where  he  went  through  intensive  training  at 
various  places,  was  then  attached  to  the  185th  Aero 
Squadron  as  a  pursuit  pilot  until  the  armistice,  and 
returned  to  the  United  States,  February,  1919. 


HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


ALBERT  LEROY  BARTLETT 
Haverhill,  Mass. 

It  will  be  seen  by  Frost's  History  that  our  class- 
mate, following  his  scholarly  tastes  and  ability,  be- 
took himself  after  graduation  at  once  to  teaching 
others,  and  later  became  Superintendent  of  Haver- 
hill schools.  On  account  of  the  death  of  the  last 
member  of  his  family,  Horace  E.,  Dart.  '69,  property 
interests  made  it  necessary  for  him  to  devote  his 
time  to  his  business  affairs. 

He  has  always  shown,  since  graduation,  special 
interest  in  New  England  history  and  the  early  an- 
nals of  his  city,  and  has  contributed  valuable  re- 
search articles  in  that  line.  Aside  from  language 
books  mentioned  by  Frost,  Silver  Burdetts  &  Co. 
published  in  1903  his  work  on  The  Construction  of 
English,  and,  in  1907,  another  work  on  Elements  of 
English  Grammar.  I  received  from  him  in  1916  an 
Historical  Address  on  Haverhill,  given  at  the  exer- 
cises commemorative  of  the  275th  anniversary  of 
the  settlement  of  the  city.  Allowing  me  to  be 
judge,  it  certainly  was  a  delightful  resume,  showing 
thorough  research,  and  expressed  in  a  way  to  make 
one  dream  over  the  life  of  those  early  scenes  and 
days.  And  bound  therein  was  his  picture.  My!  Is 
that  the  effect  of  a  bachelor's  life?  The  only  con- 
solation that  those  of  us  of  seamed  faces  can  resort 
to  is  in  gazing,  not  into  the  mirror,  but  upon  the 
bright  eyes  and  ruddy  faces  of  our  offspring.  In 
1915  he  published  Some  Memories  of  Haverhill. 
His  educational  books  have  been  published  in  Span- 
ish and  an  English  edition  is  largely  used  in  Canada. 

Albert  has  also  taken  a  prominent  part  in  muni- 
cipal affairs.     He  has  been  a  trustee  of  the  Public 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE 


Library  since  1889 ;  Chairman  of  the  Park  Board 
until  1912,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the  Muni- 
cipal Council,  and  as  a  participant  in  all  public 
meetings  and  committees  he  drifted  out  of  educa- 
tional activities  into  city  administration.  Haverhill 
adopted  the  Commission  form  of  government  in 
1908,  which  greatly  interested  him,  and  at  the  urg- 
ent desire  of  his  friends  he  became  Commissioner 
of  Public  Safety  in  1912-13-14,  and  Mayor  in  1915 
and  1916.  Again  the  citizens  strongly  expressed 
their  wishes,  so  that  in  1920  he  came  again  into 
the  office  of  Commissioner  of  Public  Safety. 

His  community  credits  him  with  the  qualities  of 
absolute  honesty,  frankness,  courtesy,  freedom 
from  any  control,  except  his  judgment  of  the  best 
interests  of  the  municipality,  and,  withal,  a  proper 
amount  of  conservatism.  During  the  war  he  busied 
himself  with  the  helpful  home  activities  and  estab- 
lished the  Public  Forum  for  patriotic  stimulus, 
known  after  the  war  as  the  Haverhill  Forum,  giving 
throughout  the  winter  a  full  course  of  lectures  on 
themes  of  the  highest  interest.  He  has  been  chair- 
man of  the  Forum  Committee  since  its  institution. 

He  is  well  and  the  years  have  not  cooled  his 
spirits  or  dampened  his  courage.  Naturally,  he 
bows  respectfully  to  his  nominal  years,  but  does  not 
feel  their  influence  in  loss  of  strength  or  vigor.  He 
has  always  kept  up  the  old  home  establishment. 
When  you  see  him  you  will  know  what  good  habits, 
well  controlled  emotions,  a  clean  conscience  and  a 
life-long  devotion  to  the  better  interests  of  the 
world  about  one  can  assure  a  man  of  good  health. 


8  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


EDWIN  JULIUS  BARTLETT 
Hanover,  N.  H. 

After  he  had  brought  the  Department  of  Chem- 
istry at  Dartmouth  to  a  place  in  the  front  rank,  and 
had  held  it  there  to  1904,  it  goes  without  saying 
that  it  would  never  go  backward  as  long  as  he  occu- 
pied the  chair  of  instruction  in  that  line.  Modern 
demands  for  instruction  in  that  science  are  too  im- 
portant and  insistent  to  be  out  of  sight  of  an  alert 
and  progressive  mind,  and  we  all  recognize  the  dis- 
tinguishing qualities  of  his  mind  to  be  alertness  and 
progressiveness.  Here  in  New  Hampshire  we 
know  that  in  politics  "Ed"  is  all  that  and  nothing 
less. 

He  was  appointed  Associate  Professor  at  Dart- 
mouth in  Chemistry  in  1878,  and  was  eligible  to 
Carnegie  retirement  pension  at  the  age  of  65  years, 
but  the  reason  that  he  resigned,  June  30,  1920,  was 
that  the  age  limit  is  70,  and  that  age  came  in  his 
case  in  February  1921.  He  thought  he  would  get 
a  trifle  ahead  of  the  necessity,  and  confesses  that, 
after  so  many  years  of  close  attention,  he  was  get- 
ting a  bit  tired  too,  and  no  wonder.  He  always  dis- 
played a  deep  interest  in  the  athletic  life  at  the  col- 
lege and  was  one  who  prompted  improvements  in 
the  opportunities  which  have  grown  so  wonderfully. 
The  connection  which  he  has  had  with  the  Medical 
Department  at  the  college  can  be  seen  by  extending 
Frost's  History  over  this  succeeding  period. 

In  1907  he  went  to  England  with  his  wife,  and  in 
1913  to  Italy  and  Switzerland,  returning  by  way  of 
England.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Legislature  in  1913  as  Representative,  and  was 


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Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Public  Health;  also 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  which 
convened  in  1917  and  completed  its  work  in  1921. 

He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Science  from  Dartmouth  College  in  1918.  Thus,  of 
our  class  receiving  honorary  degrees  at  Dartmouth, 
we  have  Frost,  Sc.  D.  in  1897 ;  Colby,  L.  L.  D.  in  1901 ; 
Dana,  L.  L.  D.  in  1905;  Miller,  L.  L.  D.  in  1905;  Bat- 
chellor,  Lit.  D.  in  1910;  Bartlett,  E.  J.,  D.  Sc.  in 
1918;  Jones,  pro  mentus,  Ph.  D.  in  1885. 

Of  the  children,  Harriet  Louise,  first  born,  mar- 
ried Moses  B.  Perkins,  Dec.  28,  1904,  and  he  is 
head  master  of  the  Abbott  School,  Farmington,  Me. 
They  have  a  son  and  a  daughter.  Edwin  R.,  Dart- 
mouth 1904,  second  child,  married  Margaret  J. 
Porter,  June  2,  1915,  and  they  have  one  son  and  two 
daughters.  He  is  now  "Works  Manager"  of  Hook- 
er Electro-Chemical  Co.,  of  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Samuel  C,  Dartmouth  1907,  second  son,  married 
Dorothy  Hinman,  Feb.  15,  1915,  and  they  have  two 
daughters.  He  is  Superintendent  of  Construction 
of  the  Hastings  Pavement  Co.,  of  N.  Y.,  and  resides 
at  West  Orange,  N.  J.  John  Foster,  Dartmouth 
1911,  the  third  son,  was  in  the  employ  of  Hooker 
Co.,  N.  F.,  and  is  now  in  the  Norton  Co.,  also  of 
Niagara  Falls. 

Samuel  C.  was  a  Captain  in  the  Engineer  Section, 
O.  R.  C,  commissioned  May  5,  1917,  and  ordered 
to  active  sendee  Dec.  27,  1917,  in  command  of 
Truck  Co.  to  23rd  of  Aug.  He  was  stationed  at  St. 
Nazaire,  France,  from  May  1  to  Sept  20,  1918,  hav- 
ing left  the  United  States  March  29,  1918.  He  be- 
longed to  1st  Army  Corps  to  Jan.  15,  1919,  through 
the  Argonne-Meuse  offensive,  and  was  discharged 
Aug.  1st,  1919. 

Edwin  R.  was  in  charge  of  a  plant  manufacturing 


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explosives,  poison  gases  and  their  constituents  dur- 
ing the  war. 

The  younger  son,  John  Foster  Bartlett,  was  in 
Foreign  Service  from  July  10,  1917,  to  March  7, 
1919,  First  American  Field  Service,  French  Army, 
June  30,  1917,  to  Aug.  20;  Aisne  Front,  U.  S.  Air 
Service;  1st  Lieut.  Aug.  21,  1917,  to  March  24, 1919; 
Issoudin;  Tours;  C.  O.  469th  Aero  Squadron,  Dec. 
25,  1918,  to  date  of  disbandment,  March  12,  1919. 

Our  classmate  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  on 
Military  Relations  at  Dartmouth  during  the  period 
of  the  Student  Training  Corps  in  1918,  and  was  also 
professor  of  Chemical  Warfare  course  there.  Thus 
we  see  that  the  father  and  sons  contributed  their 
full  quota  of  patriotic  efforts  during  the  World  War, 
and  the  sons,  Samuel  C.  and  John  F.,  were  in  France 
in  the  line  of  peril  wherever  duty  called,  and  es- 
caped injury.  The  writer  need  make  no  further 
comments  on  our  classmate's  record;  there  it  is,  it 
speaks  for  itself  and  ought  to  satisfy  his  ambition 
and  be  a  worthy  addition  to  the  record  of  his  dis- 
tinguished forbears.  Like  "Rusty,"  "Ed"  has  seven 
grandchildren. 


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ALBERT  STILLMAN  BATCHELLOR 
Born  1850-4-24;  died  1913-6-15. 

He  died  of  arteriosclerosis,  having  been  confin- 
ed to  his  bed  several  weeks.  His  wife  died  in  1910. 
But  little  can  be  added  to  Frost's  record,  or  need  be. 
"Batch"  was  awarded  by  Dartmouth  in  1910  the 
degree  of  Litt.  D.,  and  to  that  we  all  exclaimed, 
"most  fittingly  bestowed. " 

Gradual  loss  of  sight  did  not  prevent  his  contin- 
uation of  historical  work,  such  as  he  had  devoted 
himself  to  for  years,  but  it  hampered  him  in  his  law 
practice,  yet  he  kept  on  to  the  end  to  satisfy  clients 
who  would  not  listen  to  nay.  He  had  wonderful 
pluck  and  cheerfulness,  despite  his  infirmity  of 
sight,  a  growing  infirmity  which  is  usually  sufficient 
to  put  most  men  "out  of  business." 

When  he  went  to  Commencement,  he  always  met 
with  a  warm  reception,  and  his  great  fund  of  stories, 
told  in  his  sui  generis  way,  with  rare  powers  of 
imitation,  always  gathered  an  enjoying  circle  about 
him.  There  was  a  magnetism  about  his  words  and 
ways  that  impressed  men  of  his  own  age  and  the 
younger  men. 

It  was  in  the  fall  of  1905  that  he  lost  his  eye-sight, 
and  Fletcher  Hale  of  Dart.  1905,  while  pursuing  the 
study  of  law,  accepted  the  opportunity  of  reading 
and  writing  for  him  while  studying,  and  as  Hale 
says,  expected  to  find  a  man  "broken  in  spirits,  de- 
jected, ready  to  give  up  and  sit  back  and  take  things 
as  they  came,  but  I  found,  although  his  affliction  had 
been  upon  him  but  a  few  months,  a  man  who  had 
already  discovered  the  philosophy  of  Milton  con- 
tained in  the  last  lines  of  his  'Ode  on  His  Blindness/ 


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'They  also  serve  who  stand  and  wait/  and  had  made 
his  creed  one  of  active  service." 

He  found  at  once  his  good  fellowship  and  good 
cheer.  Hale  says  that  while  in  his  office  there  was 
exhibited  the  whole  life  of  our  classmate, — "It  was 
simply  summed  up  in,  fight  for  the  right  with  in- 
dustry, faith  and  loyalty." — "So  he  lived  in  spite  of 
the  darkness,  the  physical  darkness,  which  confront- 
ed him,  with  his  eyes  of  conscience  and  heart  lifted 
always  towards  the  sun, — Dear  Old -Batch." — "He 
was  one  who  loved  his  friends,  I  think,  better  than 
any  man  I  ever  knew,  and  because  he  loved  them  he 
made  many  and  kept  them." 

Two  sons  and  a  daughter  survived  the  father. 

His  son,  Stillman,  took  the  degree  of  B.  S.  at  Dart- 
mouth in  1905,  and  following  that  engaged  in  min- 
ing engineering  until  the  wTar  came.  He  then  was 
commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Engineering 
Corps  and  was  assigned  to  duty  on  the  Mexican 
border.  After  closing  his  war  service,  he  bought  a 
ranch  of  1,040  acres  near  Healdsburg,  Cal.,  where 
he  is  now  engaged  in  lumbering  and  developing  his 
ranch.  He  married  Lillian  Henderson,  of  Portland, 
Oregon,  in  November  1919. 

His  son,  Fred,  enlisted  in  the  42nd  N.  Y.  Infantry 
at  the  beginning  of  our  connection  with  the  war, 
went  "overseas"  and  came  back  to  act  in  the  in- 
struction of  soldiers  at  Camp  Devens  and  Camp 
Upton.  He  had  taken  post  graduate  work  at  Wor- 
cester Tech.  and  at  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology, and  a  two-years'  course  in  law  in  New  York. 
He  has  been  with  the  United  States  Rubber  Com- 
pany, and  at  present  is  in  the  General  Laboratory 
of  that  company  in  New  York  City. 

The  daughter,  Bertha  B.,  married  Richard  W. 
Sulloway  of  PYanklin,  N.  H.,  Oct.  30,  1914,  and  they 


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have  a  daughter,  Mary  Jeanette,  Born  Feb.  1,  1917. 
Her  husband  is  a  manufacturer  of  hosiery  and  a 
graduate  of  St.  Paul's  School  and  later  of  Harvard 
in  1898. 

I  expressed  my  opinion  of  "Batch"  once  in  words 
which  I  have  no  occasion  to  change,  namely:  "Mr. 
Batchellor  has  practiced  under  the  strenuous  meth- 
ods and  in  the  exacting  environment  of  the  bar  of 
northern  New  Hampshire,  with  a  constantly  increas- 
ing area  of  professional  activity  outside  the  home 
circuits.  His  tastes,  habits  and  aptitude  in  advo- 
cacy are  entirely  subordinated  to  the  main  purpose 
of  persuasion  and  of  success  as  the  ultimate  result. 
He  represents  the  successful  lawyer  of  this  period 
in  prudence  and  studied  adaption  to  surrounding 
facts  and  conditions.  His  examination  of  the  his- 
tory of  legal  principles  and  decisions  is  regarded  by 
the  court  as  especially  worthy  of  respect  and  con- 
sideration. His  approach  to  the  decisions  is  with 
particular  regard  to  the  practical  aspects  of  the 
subject  in  hand,  but  without  losing  sight  of  the  the- 
oretical and  historical  point  of  view.  His  bent  of 
mind  is  toward  a  proper  reverence  for  the  legal 
fathers  without  making  'a  fetich  of  that  which  com- 
mends itself  only  for  its  antiquity.  He  does  not  get 
out  of  step  with  the  unmistakable  currents  of  events 
or  the  inevitable  adaptation  of  principles  to  new  and 
changing  conditions  in  a  progressive  administration 
oi  law. 

"As  a  lawyer,  considered  in  comparision  with  the 
profession  as  it  is  in  this  period,  meeting  all  the  im- 
portant responsibilities  before  it,  he  has  an  all  round 
superiority  and,  without  hazard  to  any  interest  or 
to  any  client,  he  is  well  able  to  meet  on  an  even 
footing  the  senior  talent  now  employed  in  New 
Hampshire  in  important  cases." 


14  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


JAMES  FRANKLIN  BEARD 
Born  1849-10;  died  1906-7-2 

He  died  of  heart  failure.  The  accounts  of  his 
life  and  death  all  show  that  he  was  finely  regarded 
in  his  community  of  70,000,  and  that  he  was  deeply 
interested  in  education,  morality  and  religion.  His 
lines  of  work  continued  to  be  financial  as  a  banker 
and  city  Treasurer.  "Quiet,  undemonstrative,  often 
silent  and  reserved,  but  forceful,  a  man  of  excellent 
judgment,  cultivated  mind,  generous  and  kindly  of 
heart  and  much  beloved  by  his  friends.,, 

A  picture  then  printed  at  his  death  showed  very 
little  change  in  his  looks  as  we  knew  him.  His  hair 
was  thick  and  dark,  and  his  face  with  few  lines  of 
care.  I  recall  with  great  clearness  what  a  wizard 
he  seemed  to  me  in  the  solving  of  the  hard  knots  of 
problems  in  Mechanics  as  I  worked  with  him  many 
an  evening. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  15 


FRANK  TAYLOR  BEEDE 
Born  1849-9-9;  died  1905-11-22 

Our  brother  died  soon  after  our  class  History  was 
closed  so  that  but  little  further  need  be  said.  His 
death  was  the  result  of  heart  weakness,  following 
pneumonia  in  March,  1904,  from  which  he  thought 
he  had  well  recovered. 

He  was  manager  and  head  salesman  of  the  L.  T. 
Jefts  Co.,  an  extensive  shoe  manufacturing  concern. 
His  life  was  one  of  devotion,  not  alone  to  business, 
but  to  many  civic  duties,  to  Christian  work  and  to 
supporting  the  good  causes  which  he  loved.  He 
was  frank,  resolute  in  advancing  the  ideas  in  which 
he  believed,  loyal  to  his  college,  and  a  strong  man 
in  his  community. 

He  left  a  widow  and  two  sons.  She  is  not  in  the 
best  of  health  and  is  spending  the  winter  in  Florida. 
The  older  son,  Everett  J.,  Boston  University,  1905, 
A.  B.,  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  1906- 
'07,  post-graduate  course,  became  the  successor  of 
his  father  on  the  road  as  salesman  for  the  L.  T. 
Jefts  Co.  until  it  closed  its  business  in  1913,  when  he 
went  into  the  wholesale  oil  business,  managing  the 
Pennsylvania  Refiners  Ass'n.,  of  which  he  is  presi- 
dent. During  the  war  he  was  an  investigator  in  the 
Bureau  of  Investigation  of  the  U.  S.  Department  of 
Justice.  He  is  married  and  has  two  sons  and  a 
daughter,  and  resides  at  Belmont,  Mass. 

The  other  son,  Luman  J.,  was  educated  in  several 
schools,  was  on  the  Mexican  border  in  the  71st 
N.  Y.  regiment,  later  in  the  Navy  during  the  war, 
assigned  to  recruiting  service  in  Detroit  and  other 
points  in  Michigan,  and  is  now  working  for  an  ad- 
vertising concern  in  Detroit. 


16  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


ARTHUR  WALTER  BLAIR 
Born  1848-5-22;  died  1911-1-18 

The  Doctor  died  suddenly,  stricken  on  his  way 
home  from  a  professional  visit.  He  was  able  to 
continue  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  up  to  the 
end  of  his  days.  He  had  a  large  field  of  work,  and 
was  regarded  with  great  esteem,  not  only  in  his  pro- 
fession, but  as  a  citizen  taking  an  active  interest  in 
all  good  community  matters.  I  had  the  good  for- 
tune to  meet  him,  much  to  my  surprise,  on  a  steamer 
on  his  way  to  Prince  Edward  Island,  in  1906,  where 
he  was  making  a  short  trip  for  rest  and  pleasure. 
He  was  the  same  cheerful  fellow,  full  of  the  old- 
time  incidents,  and  he  regaled  my  family  and  my- 
self with  many  entertaining  stories.  He  had  devel- 
oped into  a  rare  raconteur,  and  we  kept  the  deck 
that  evening  to  a  late  hour. 

He  left  a  wife  and  two  sons,  Walter,  Dart.  1900, 
Tuck  School  1901,  for  the  last  fifteen  years  has 
been  in  the  employ  of  Winslow  Bros.  &  Smith,  im- 
porters and  tanners  of  sheep  skins.  In  1910  he 
married  Helen  Tilden  of  Cohasset  and  has  two  chil- 
dren, Elizabeth  and  William.  Hugh  of  Dart.  1904, 
went  to  New  Orleans  soon  after  graduation  and  was 
for  years  manager  of  the  New  Orleans  branch  of 
the  U.  S.  Lino  Co.  Several  years  ago  he  went  into 
business  for  himself  and  is  the  owner  of  the  Blair 
Motor  Co.  Inc.,  at  Plaque  Mine,  La.  In  1909  he 
married  Meta  Lachs  of  New  Orleans,  who  lived  only 
a  few  years.  In  1915  he  married  Helen  Cefahe, 
also  of  New  Orleans.  He  has  three  children.  The 
wife  of  our  classmate  lives  at  6  Regina  Road,  Dor- 
chester, Mass. 


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WILLIAM  RUSSELL  BURLEIGH 
Born  1851-2-13;  died  1916  -1-29 

He  remained  in  Chicago  until  some  six  years  be- 
fore his  death,  when  it  became  important  to  take  up 
his  residence  in  this  State  to  manage  property  here. 
He  came  to  Manchester  and  had  his  home  in  Bed- 
ford. He  did  not  enter  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession  here,  although  he  occasionally  sat  as 
Referee  in  cases  committed  to  him  by  our  courts. 

Whenever  I  met  him,  I  found  him  full  of  good 
cheer,  of  active  mind  and  interest  in  public  affairs. 
He  was  a  strong  man  in  his  church,  and  had  taken 
the  high  degrees  in  Masonry.  His  love  for  Dart- 
mouth was  as  deep  as  of  old.  Fruit  raising  on  his 
wife's  farm  at  Bedford  was  his  hobby,  and  he  set  out 
three  hundred  trees  and  they  are  now  just  beginning 
to  bear,  something  that  he  was  counting  on  to  glad- 
den the  years  as  he  grew  old.  Just  before  his  last 
sickness  he  had  sat  as  Referee  in  a  case  in  Carroll 
County,  and  came  home  somewhat  weary  from 
the  long  hours  of  the  last  day  of  the  hearing.  Fol- 
lowing that  he  died  quite  suddenly.  His  funeral 
was  attended  by  many  prominent  people  and  a  host 
of  friends. 

Besides  his  wife,  he  was  survived  by  his  son,  John 
R.,  who  graduated  from  Exeter  in  1910,  and  Dart- 
mouth in  1914,  and  decided  to  train  himself  to  fol- 
low a  business  career.  He  "made  good"  in  the  G. 
P.  Crofts  Shoe  Co.,  and  is  in  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany in  Boston,  and  in  October  1916  married  the 
only  child  of  Mr.  G.  P.  Crofts,  Pauline,  and  they  are 
blessed  with  one  son,  George  Crofts  Burleigh,  their 
home  being  in  Brookline,   Mass.     Our  classmate's 


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daughter,  Elinor,  died  in  1909.  The  son,  John  R., 
would  have  gone  "overseas/'  but  for  a  natal  defect 
of  his  eyes  which  threw  him  out  in  the  examination 
for  military  service. 


FRANK  HENRY  CARLETON 
Born  1849-10-8;  died  1916-2-1 

He  died  from  the  result  of  what  was  regarded  as 
a  minor  surgical  operation. 

A  Dartmouth  man,  well  acquainted  with  our 
classmate's  career,  says  that  he  was  "One  of  the 
most  successful  and  useful  men  of  our  class;  that  he 
did  a  great  deal  of  the  best  law  business  in  Minne- 
apolis and  that  he  had  abundant  means  and  a  large 
acquaintance. "  He  left  a  wife  who  died  in  March, 
1920,  and  six  children,  Edwin  J.,  a  mining  engineer; 
Henry  S.  and  George  A.,  successful  lawyers  in  Min- 
neapolis; Frank  P.,  in  the  bond  business  and  a  grad- 
uate of  Dartmouth  in  1919  and  of  the  Tuck  School 
in  1920,  and  Margaret  S.,  who  was  a  Junior  in  Wells 
College,  Aurora,  N.  Y.,  in  1920.  There  are  three 
grandchildren. 

A  biographical  sketch  of  "Guy  in  1901,  gives  us 
also  a  picture  of  him,  eyes  clear  and  searching,  bald- 
ness of  head,  full  mustache,  but  few  lines  of  age, 
facial  expression  persuasive  of  confidence  and  abil- 
ity. His  particular  lines  in  his  profession  were  real 
estate,  probate  and  financial  adjustment  cases.  He 
devoted  leisure  time  to  scientific  research  and  lit- 
erary pursuits. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  19 


CHARLES  ALFRED  CARSON 
8249  22nd  Ave,  S.  W.  Seattle,  Wash. 

The  wide  space  of  years  since  our  class  has  had 
any  substantial  information  about  classmate  Carson 
has  been  abridged  by  a  letter  from  him,  the  contents 
of  which  will  prove  intensely  interesting,  and  I  can 
do  no  better  than  to  copy  his  report  for  the  most 
part:  "I  left  my  ancestral  home  near  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
Aug.  15,  1872,  for  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  I  served  an 
apprenticeship  of  over  3  years  in  typography  and 
local  advertising.  In  September  1875  I  was  attract- 
ed by  the  report  of  Gen.  Custer  and  Prof.  Jenny  to 
the  government  in  relation  to  finds  of  placer  gold  un- 
earthed by  them  in  the  Black  Hills,  S.  W.  Dakota, 
during  the  summer  of  1875.  The  Black  Hills,  or 
Mountains,  were  at  that  time  a  part  of  The  Great 
Sioux  Reservation  and  covered  an  immense  area, 
and  Pres.  Grant,  sensing  a  rush  to  these  gold  fields, 
issued  a  proclamation  to  all  citizens  of  the  United 
States  and  the  rest  of  mankind  not  to  invade,  under 
penalty  of  arrest,  confiscation  of  outfit,  imprison- 
ment and  fine.  However,  little  attempt  was  made 
by  the  government  to  stop  the  great  rush  for  the 
gold  diggings,  and  on  June  25,  1876,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  drove  his  team  of  four  mules  with  a 
heavy  load  of  freight  up  Deadwood  Gulch,  Black 
Hills,  where  the  city  of  Deadwood  is  now  located, 
being  one  of  83  similar  outfits  which  left  Kansas 
City.  Mo.,  on  the  same  procession,  all  arriving  in  the 
same  Gulch  and  at  the  same  time,  but  passed  en 
route  by  many  thousands  with  lighter  conveyances, 
or  on  horseback.     Discovering  in  a  few  hours  after 


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arrival  that  the  whole  country  for  many  miles  had 
been  located  for  both  quartz  and  placer  claims  by 
the  vanguard  of  "sooners"  and  that  there  was  a 
great  opening  for  express  and  freighting  from  the 
Union  Pacific  R.  R.  to  Black  Hills  settlements,  and 
locally  between  towns,  he  promptly  entered  this 
field  of  service  and  built  up  a  good  business,  conduct- 
ed with  much  profit  until  June  1878,  when  he  sold 
out  and  went  at  once  to  Fargo,  Dakota,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  real  estate  and  loans  until  1882,  when  he 
disposed  of  his  Red  River  holdings  and  located  in 
Montana.  While  at  Fargo  he  read  law  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  in  August  1879.  Both  North  and 
South  Dakota  were  one  territory  then,  and  at  the 
Republican  territorial  convention  at  Fargo,  May  19, 
1880,  he  was  elected  an  alternate  delegate  to  the 
National  Convention  at  Chicago,  and,  the  delegate 
being  absent,  he  voted  for  James  G.  Blaine  on  36 
ballots,  as  instructed  at  Fargo. 

In  Montana  from  1882  to  1886  he  engaged  in 
mining  and  stock  raising;  1886  to  1890  he  was  Pro- 
bate Judge. 

In  1896  he  went  to  Spokane,  Wash,  and  remained 
in  that  vicinity  until  the  opening  of  the  Spanish  War 
when  he  joined  the  1st  U.  S.  Wash.  Vol.  Inf.  and 
served  with  that  Regiment  in  the  Philippine  Insur- 
rection, from  April  1898  until  mustered  out  at  Presi- 
dio, San  Francisco,  Nov.  1,  1899,  then  being  over  44 
years  of  age. 

After  that  he  engaged  in  orchard  work  in  Wash- 
ington and  later  followed  the  same  occupation  in 
Oregon  and  California  as  a  foreman  in  several  ex- 
tensive orchards.  Since  1910  he  has  been  located 
in  Seattle  and  is  now  a  berry  grower  and  in  nursery 
work  in  South  Seattle,  with  encouraging  prospects. 
He  is  in  most  excellent  health   and  strength   and 


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finds  the  growing  of  logan-berries  very  profitable, 
returns  being  realized  in  a  few  weeks  in  summer. 
He  saw  the  Dartmouth  football  game  at  Seattle  in 
November  1920  and  rooted  as  did  his  family  for  the 
old  college. 

He  was  first  married,  Aug.  4,  1880,  in  Minneapolis 
to  Kate  A.  Murphy  and  by  her  has  had  five  children, 
all  now  alive,  three  daughters  and  two  sons.  The 
daughters  are  all  married  and  reside  in  South  Cali- 
fornia, and  the  sons  reside  on  farms  near  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  and  are  married.  All  of  his  children  are  grad- 
uates of  High  School  and  each  has  one  or  more 
children." 

His  first  wife  died  in  1903  and  he  married  Mrs. 
Hannah  Daggett  of  Sumner,  Wash.,  in  1907,  at  Ta- 
coma.  The  health  of  his  wife  is  somewhat  precar- 
ious and  may  prevent  his  attending  our  reunion,  a 
thing  he  says  he  would  surely  do  but  for  that. 


22  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


CHARLES  HENRY  CLEMENT 
Oakland,  Cal. 

I  wrote  "Clem"  in  September  1920  for  inform- 
ation, and  my  feelings  were  troubled  on  receiving 
his  response,  Sept.  30,  that  he  was  in  St.  Mary's  Hos- 
pital, San  Francisco,  waiting  to  be  operated  on. 
However,  the  outlook  was  encouraging  on  the  basis 
of  a  good  constitution  with  a  history  of  good  habits 
and  a  measure  of  "early  piety"  unconnected  with 
fasts,  genuflections  and  any  other  Puritanical  ex- 
cesses. 

His  mind  recurred  to  happy  days  in  the  "open," 
with  deer,  antelope,  black,  brown  and  grizzly  bears 
ahead,  and  sometimes  near  enough  for  the  rifle, 
while  geese,  ducks,  quail,  rabbits  and  fish  galore, 
furnished  pictures  in  abundance  to  occupy  his  mind 
while  he  awaited  anaesthesia,  and  the  table  without 
any  relishes. 

He  has  lived  for  a  year  with  his  son,  Earle,  at 
Oakland,  and  from  there  has  been  privileged  with 
many  successful  trips  after  bass  and  trouE.  He  has 
killed  "rafts"  of  wild-cats,  coyotes,  and  occasionally 
a  mountain  lion,  in  the  years  gone  by,  sport  prob- 
ably unknown  to  any  other  '72  man. 

His  wife  died  six  years  ago.  Lecturing  and  polit- 
ical speeches  by  him  have  received  due  attention  in 
the  "open  season,"  and,  having  in  his  earlier  career 
been  a  prominent  educator  as  well  as  a  lawyer  and 
writer,  his  services  have  been  much  in  demand  along 
those  lines.  Since  1897,  until  within  a  year,  he  has 
been  a  scientific  fruit  grower  of  cherries  and  prunes, 
and  has  done  his  full  share  in  putting  Santa  Clara 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  23 

County  at  the  head  of  the  fruit  growing  sections  of 
the  coast. 

His  letter  to  me  in  December  spoke  of  his  sitting 
up  half  of  the  time,  walking  a  little,  and  expecting 
to  get  out  in  January. 

His  daughter,  Edith,  married  A.  E.  Davis,  son  of 
Geo.  E.  Davis,  Dart.  '71,  and  they  have  had  six 
children,  of  whom  four  boys  and  one  girl  are  now 
alive.  His  son,  Charles  Earle,  is  a  dentist  in  Oak- 
land. He  enlisted  the  day  war  was  declared  by  the 
United  States,  became  a  1st  Lieutenant  and  went 
through  the  war  unscathed.  Having  divorced  his 
first  wife,  he  married  again  and  has  two  daughters 
by  the  second  wife,  and  thus  we  find  that  "Clem" 
has  been  grandfather  eight  times,  with  seven  now 
living.  I  think  the  final  returns  of  your  recorder 
will  leave  him  at  the  head. 

He  remembers  Dart,  and  '72  with  unabated  in- 
terest and  affection,  and,  if  he  moves  upward  in 
strength  and  health  as  now  seems  assured,  he  ought 
to  take  a  fast  train  for  Hanover  in  1922,  where  he 
will  find  that  the  friendships  of  youth  are  sweetened 
and  accentuated  by  the  influences  of  time  and  re- 
flection. 


24  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


GEORGE  CLARKE  COFFIN 
Born  1851-4-15;  died  1913-3-5 

He  died  suddenly  of  heart  disease  near  his  home 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  It  was  thought  that  the  imme- 
diate cause  of  his  death  was  the  shock  of  witnessing 
a  collision  on  the  street. 

He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  St.  Matthew's 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  West  84th  Street,  New 
York.  For  many  years  he  was  a  vestryman  of  that 
church.  Unfortunately  family  differences  had 
caused  his  separation  from  his  wife  and  his  removal 
from  New  York  to  Brooklyn.  He  seems  to  have  had 
a  fair  standing  in  his  profession,  but  had  contracted 
rather  a  blue  way  of  looking  at  life. 

He  was  survived  by  wife  and  two  children. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  25 


JAMES  FAIRBANKS  COLBY 
Hanover,  N.  H. 

In  1905,  Colby  was  appointed  a  lecturer  on  Juris- 
prudence in  the  Law  School  of  Boston  University, 
and  having  been  granted  an  annual  leave  of  absence 
from  the  college  since  1897  during  the  months  Jan- 
uary-April, was  enabled  to  accept  this  appointment. 
He  also  has  served  the  Law  School  as  Lecturer  on 
International  Law  since  1913. 

In  1906,  with  Barstow  French,  he  joined  a  small 
group  of  Independent  Republicans  who  under  the 
leadership  of  Winston  Churchill  began  a  campaign 
to  overthrow  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  from  its 
position  as  controller  of  New  Hampshire  politics. 
Albeit  the  result  of  the  campaign  of  that  year  was  a 
defeat  of  this  revolt  within  the  party,  such  a  strong 
public  opinion  was  aroused  against  this  corporate 
domination  of  the  State  that  it  was  brought  by  suc- 
cessive stages  to  a  virtual  end  in  1914.  During  the 
Presidential  campaign  of  1912  when  this  group  of 
Independent  Republicans  divided  their  support  be- 
tween Roosevelt  and  Taft,  he  gave  his  allegiance  to 
the  latter.  In  1912,  he  revised  his  Manual  of  the 
Constitution  of  New  Hampshire,  which  was  repub- 
lished by  the  State  for  the  use  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention  in  that  year,  but  he  declined  to  accept 
a  nomination  as  a  delegate  to  that  convention. 

In  1914,  he  was  traveling  with  his  sister  in  Eu- 
rope, and  had  just  passed  from  Germany  into  Swit- 
zerland when  the  World  War  was  declared.  After 
the  mobilization  of  the  French  army  was  completed, 
they  struggled  through  France  by  way  of  Lyons, 


26  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


Paris  and  Boulogne,  amid  the  difficulties  then  en- 
countered by  Americans  fleeing  from  the  Continent, 
and  reached  London  safely  on  August  23rd.  De- 
tained there  by  the  requisitioning  of  the  steamer 
upon  which  they  had  engaged  their  homeward  pass- 
age, they  witnessed  England's  active  preparations 
for  a  long  war,  the  drilling  of  a  part  of  Kitchener's 
"first  hundred  thousand"  and  the  reception  of  the 
wounded  after  the  Battle  of  the  Marne,  until  pass- 
age homeward  on  the  Mauretania  allowed  them  to 
land  in  New  York  on  September  23rd. 

At  Commencement  in  1916,  five  years  before 
reaching  what  has  become  the  usual  age  for  retire- 
ment from  a  collegiate  office,  in  the  hope  of  conserv- 
ing his  defective  eyesight  and  in  the  belief  that  the 
best  interests  of  the  college  would  be  promoted  by 
his  giving  way  to  a  successor  who  could  give  his 
whole  time  to  its  service,  he  resigned  the  Parker 
Professorship  of  Law  and  Political  Science  to  which 
he  had  been  elected  upon  its  establishment  in  1885. 
The  Trustees,  upon  accepting  his  resignation,  passed 
the  following  resolution:  "Voted:  That  in  accept- 
ing at  his  own  urgent  request  the  resignation  of 
Doctor  James  Fairbanks  Colby,  for  thirty-one  years 
Joel  Parker  Professor  of  Law  and  Political  Science, 
the  trustees  record  their  high  and  grateful  appre- 
ciation of  Professor  Colby's  long,  faithful  and  dis- 
tinguished service  as  a  valued  teacher  and  councilor 
of  the  College,'  and  elected  him  to  be  Professor 
Emeritus  in  the  college.  Since  1916  he  has  contin- 
ued his  services  as  lecturer  in  the  Law  School  of 
Boston  University.  His  permanent  residence  is 
Hanover,  N.  H.,  but  during;  the  winter  months  his 
address  is  11  Ashburton  Place,  Boston,  Mass. 

It  has  been  my  privilege  to  meet  Colby  occasional- 
ly and  also  to  receive  letters  of  good  cheer.     Tuttle* 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  27 

Savage,  Mills  and  myself  met  him  and  his  sister  at 
the  Sesquicentennial  in  October  1919,  and  lunched 
with  them  and  Ed  Bartlett  and  his  wife  at  Bartlett's 
home,  and  all  of  us  certainly  had  a  delightful  ex- 
change of  retrospects  and  reflections.  The  old 
glories  of  Dartmouth  and  the  life  of  '72  glowed  as 
we  talked  and  looked  into  each  other's  faces,  and 
Colby,  though  imperfect  vision  has  long  somewhat 
hampered  his  activities,  shone  with  a  warmth  of 
friendship  and  personal  interest  that  had  even 
strengthened,  if  possible,  under  the  ripening  influ- 
ence of  years. 

In  1901  Dartmouth  conferred  the  degree  of  L.  L. 
D.  on  our  classmate. 


WILLIAM  HAZEN  COTTON 
Born  1846-2-6;  died  1904-8-25 

He  was  survived  by  his  wife.  The  former  His- 
tory completes  the  story  of  one  of  our  most  interest- 
ing and  genial  classmates. 


28  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


CHARLES  LOOMIS  DANA 
53  West  53rd  Street,  New  York  City 

I  had  a  letter  from  Dana,  Jan.  10,  1921,  and  he 
told  me  to  "fix  it  up"  as  I  pleased,  but  his  letter  was 
so  much  better  than  anything  I  could  "fix  up"  that 
here  it  is: 

"Responding  to  your  kindly  urge,  I  send  you  here- 
with the  annals  of  my  last  fifteen  years — and  now 
will  the  various  agencies  at  Dartmouth,  which  write 
to  me  every  year  ter-que,  quaterque  for  money 
kindly  take  notice!  Said  agencies  address  and  so- 
licit me  as  Mr.  'Chas.  Dana/  and  probably  visualize 
me  as  an  obscure  but  opulent  citizen  of  New  York 
who  will  gain  distinction  by  contributing  to  a  skat- 
ing-rink, or  swimming  pool,  dramatic  club  or  other 
form  of  educational  uplift.  As  a  matter  of  fact  I 
am  still  a  doctor  of  medicine  and  have  not  dropped 
my  middle  name. 

In  1904  I  was  elected  President  of  the  New  York 
Academy  of  Medicine,  and  I  have  been  a  Trustee, 
and  Chairman  of  its  Committee  on  Public  Health 
since  finishing  my  term  of  office  as  president.  I 
have  continued  my  work  as  Professor  of  Nervous 
Diseases  in  Cornell  University  Medical  College  and 
am  still  on  the  job  with  a  couple  of  Associate  Pro- 
fessors and  a  staff  of  assistants.  With  these  I  have 
organized  and  established  a  department  for  nervous 
diseases  in  Bellevue,  our  largest  City  Hospital  for 
acute  diseases.  I  have  just  got  out  the  9th  edition 
of  my  Textbook  of  Nervous  Diseases  first  published 
20  odd  years  ago.  Of  course  with  all  this  I  have 
done  a  lot  of  talking  and  writing,  most  of  it  only 
of  technical  interest. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  29 

With  my  brothers  there  has  been  established  a  so- 
called  "Elm  Tree  Press"  which  does  fine  work  at 
Woodstock,  Vt.,  and  here  I  have  played  with  the 
Latin  Classics.  We  put  out  a  "Horace  for  Modern 
Readers,"  long  now  out  of  print,  and  later  transla- 
tions of  some  of  the  Satires  and  Epistles,  with  var- 
ious historical  and  archaeological  booklets.  These 
include  illustrations  of  Horace's  Villa,  the  site  of 
which  we  were  the  first  in  modern  times  to  uncover 
and  photograph.  I  have  compiled  and  published  a 
small  anthology,  called  "Fragments  from  Parnas- 
sus," and  become  a  collector  and  student  and  not  a 
writer  of  poetry.     These  have  been  my  avocations. 

I  suppose  that  I  must  record  that  Dartmouth  gave 
me  an  L.  L.  D.  in  1905. 

Since  the  loss  of  my  wife,  I  have  never  married, 
but  lived  with  my  three  children.  My  youngest 
daughter,  Elsie,  died  ten  years  ago,  and  my  son, 
Loomis,  who  enlisted  as  private  in  the  Marines,  died 
in  France  in  October,  1918.  My  remaining  daugh- 
ter, Marjorie,  who  worked  in  Belgium  at  the  front 
and  in  France,  is  married  and  she  and  her  husband 
and  small  daughter  live  with  me  in  New  York  at  the 
old  stand. 

I  see  Dartmouth  every  year,  but  I  fear  I  have  out- 
grown it.  I  find  Jim  Colby  there,  as  austerely 
humorous  as  ever,  and  last  summer  I  joyfully  grasp- 
ed the  hand  of  Ed.  Bartlett.  Tom  Worthen  never 
grows  old.  Here  in  New  York  I  meet  Doc.  Silver,  a 
mighty  good  friend  who  has  made  his  reputation  as 
a  surgeon.  Bob  Welch  has  become  shy,  at  least  we 
rarely  meet.  Chuck  Miller  I  see  oftenest  and  he  re- 
tains his  youth  and  activity,  celerity  and  hilarity  of 
mind,  being  also  now  the  dean  and  leading  journal- 
ist and  editorial  writer  of  the  country.  He  wears 
the  insignia  of  honor  of  three  countries.     Returning 


30  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


to  'Mr.  Chas.  Dana/  I  play  golf  and  still  have  a 
handicap  of  14  and  can  play  36  holes  a  day,  but  not 
often.  I  smoke  always  and  drink  when  I  can,  and 
go  to  Church  on  Sunday  when  in  New  England 
where  I  get  the  pure  gospel.  What  more  need  I 
say,  Barstow,  'O  saepe  mecum  tempus  in  ultima- 
tum,' except  to  add  for  you  and  all : 

Trecor,  integra  cum  mente;  nee  turpem  senec- 
tam/ 

'Degere,  nee  amicis  carentem?' 

Get  your  old  pony  out  and  see  if  you  can  read  Ode 
1-31. 

Fraternally  yours." 

I  got  the  sentiment  of  the  quotation  in  my  own 
way  but  I  do  not  propose  to  lighten  the  efforts  of  the 
Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Dig  it  out,  fellows,  and  then  com- 
pare with  your  own  sentiments  and  attitude.  This 
is  what  Miller  says  about  Dr.  Dana :  "In  addition  to 
his  very  high  standing  in  his  own  specialty  for  nerv- 
ous diseases,  it  ought  to  be  said  that  he  has  come  to 
a  position  of  prominence  in  what  may  be  called 
Public  Medicine.  The  Academy  of  Medicine  has 
organized  a  department  to  consider  questions  of 
sanitation  and  measures  to  be  taken  against  epidem- 
ics like  the  influenza  or  poliomyelitis.  Dana  was  the 
organizer  and  has  been  at  the  head  since  its  estab- 
lishment, and  he  often  writes  communications  on 
those  subjects  for  professional  journals  or  the  public 
press.  There  is  no  physician  in  New  York  more 
highly  respected  personally  and  professionally." 

This  is  what  Dr.  Silver  writes  to  me:  "I  have  the 
warmest  regard  and  admiration  for  Dana.  His 
classmates  outside  of  the  medical  profession  cannot 
have  any  idea  of  the  very  high  position  he  occupies 
in  the  profession." 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  31 


MIRANDUS  RUGG  DUSTIN 
Born  1850-2-6;  died  1919-2-. 

Nothing  has  been  gathered  about  his  life  since 
brother  Frost's  report,  which  he  said  was  incom- 
plete. Evidently  Dustin  did  not  succeed  in  making 
that  use  of  his  advantages  which  was  to  be  expected 
of  a  college  graduate.  He  died  in  Roxbury,  Mass., 
in  February,  1919,  destitute  of  the  ministrations  of 
relatives  and  friends.  How  his  later  years  became 
so  pathetic  and  destitute  of  interest  to  those  who 
were  acquainted  with  him,  and  why  so  cheerless, 
will  never  be  known  to  us. 


32  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


ALFRED  RANDALL  EVANS 
Gorham,  N.  H. 

I  received  a  letter  from  Evans  1st.  and  it  covers 
all  that  is  necessary  to  show  that  he  has  been  living 
up  to  his  fine  record  established  before  1904  and 
described  in  our  last  report.  The  following  is  a 
copy  of  his  letter: 

"Gorham,  N.  H.,  Jan.  25th,  1921. 
My  dear  French : 

Since  1904,  when  Frost's  sketch  ended,  I  have 
resided  in  Gorham,  and  carried  on  a  fire  insurance 
and  law  business,  and  am  so  now  engaged,  although 
not  as  actively  as  heretofore,  still  I  attend  to  busi- 
ness regularly  every  day.  As  you  know,  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1919  I  had  a  severe  illness,  and  submitted  to 
a  surgical  operation  at  the  Mary  Hitchcock  Hospital 
in  Hanover.  I  had  a  good  recovery,  and  am  in  very 
good  health. 

I  have  continued,  and  am  now,  President  of  the 
Gorham  Savings  Bank.  The  bank  has  been  grow- 
ing, and  has  a  most  satisfactory  period  under  my 
administration.  In  1912,  as  in  1902,  I  was  elected 
by  vote  of  all  parties  a  member  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention,  and  also  of  the  present  Convention  of 
1918-20-21.  This  is  the  only  office  I  have  permitted 
my  town's  voters  to  cast  their  ballots  for  me  in  re- 
cent years.  I  was  appointed  Quartermaster  Gener- 
al of  the  N.  H.  National  Guard,  on  the  staff  of  Gov. 
C.  M.  Floyd,  was  reappointed  by  Gov.  Quimby  and 
also  by  Gov.  Bass,  thus  serving  for  five  years,  until 
there  was  a  reorganization  of  staff  officials. 

Have  been,  since  its  organization,  president  of  the 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  33 

Berlin-Gorham  Bar  Association,  and  have  served  as 
president  of  the  Coos  County  Bar  Association.  I 
retired  on  March  21,  1919  from  the  position  of 
Judge  of  Probate  for  Coos  Co.,  on  account  of  the  age 
limitation  in  our  state  constitution,  having  served 
over  twenty-four  years.  My  term  was  an  agreeable 
one  to  me,  and  apparently  acceptable  to  the  citizens 
of  my  county.  Expressions  of  regret  at  my  close  of 
office  were  universal. 

I  have  been  twice  married.  My  first  wife  died  on 
May  10,  1908,  and  I  married  again  an  December  14, 
1911,  Mrs.  Marion  J.  Aldrich  of  Colebrook.  We 
reside  on  Main  Street  in  Gorham. 

I  trust  the  above  may  assist  you  in  completing 
your  labor  of  love  for  our  class,  and  that  many  of 
us  may  be  permitted  to  join  together  in  Hanover  for 
our  50th  Anniversary  next  Summer." 

I  may  add  that  Alfred  is  a  member  of  the  N.  H. 
Historical  Society.  A  complimentary  luncheon  was 
given  him  by  members  of  the  bar  at  Lancaster,  fol- 
lowing his  retirement  as  Judge  of  Probate.  This 
was  said  at  the  time :  "His  countless  friends  recog- 
nize that  he  is  still  possessed  of  the  spirit  of  youth 
and  abundantly  able  to  carry  on  the  work  of  his  of- 
fice. Judge  Evans  has  conducted  the  probate  work 
in  a  manner  which  may  never  be  duplicated  and  his 
friendships  among  the  lawyers  have  increased  with 
the  years." 


34  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


WILLIAM  WEBSTER  EVANS 
Born  1849-11-16;  died  1912-3-17 

William  died  quite  suddenly  of  heart  trouble. 
Latterly  he  had  been  of  the  firm  of  Willard  & 
Evans,  and  had  been  highly  successful  and  was 
widely  known.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Illinois  Club  of  Chicago  and  in  out-door  life  was  an 
expert  hunter  and  fisherman.  Unfortunately,  hav- 
ing access  to  none  of  the  published  articles  at  the 
time  of  his  decease,  giving  a  resume  of  his  mature 
life,  my  report  is  necessarily  thus  brief.  However, 
Frost's  report  is  our  recourse. 

He  was  survived  by  a  wife  and  four  daughters. 
The  wife  has  not  had  that  perfect  health  which  is 
desirable,  but  her  health  has  improved  considerably 
so  that  she  is  keeping  young  in  spirits,  is  active  and 
living  in  Greenwood  Inn,  Evanston,  111. 

The  eldest  daughter,  Marion,  graduate  of  Smith 
College,  married  Edward  Stanwood,  Jr.,  June  15, 
1907,  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin,  occupation  shipping, 
and  they  reside  at  Wellesley  Hills,  Mass.  They 
have  three  children,  Edward  3rd.  1908,  Evans,  1911, 
and  daughter,  Shirley,  1914,  and  the  mother  thinks 
the  boys  will  both  go  to  Dartmouth.  Of  Marion  I  can 
speak  from  personal  knowledge.  She  is  the  em- 
bodiment of  her  father's  energy,  a  real  "live  wire," 
making  efficient  "Drives"  in  whatever  she  under- 
takes, whether  home-making,  golf,  Smith  College 
millions,  or  any  other  noble  community  aifair. 

Alice,  next  in  age,  graduate  of  Smith,  also  of 
Wellesley  College  in  the  Department  of  Physical 
Hygiene,  is  Assistant  Professor,  head  of  Department 
of  Physical  Education  for  women  in  Pomona  Col- 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  35 

lege,  California.  She  was  in  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  the  U.  S.  Army  as  a  Reconstruction  Aide  in 
Physical  Therapy  in  the  Walter  Reed  General  Mil- 
itary Hospital  at  Washington,  D.  C,  from  August 
4  to  September  8,  1918,  when  she  was  mobilized  for 
foreign  service  September  24  of  that  year  and  soon 
went  overseas  to  France  and  was  stationed  at  Ri- 
mancourt  in  the  Vosges  foothills  in  October,  under 
appointment  in  France  as  Head  Reconstruction 
Aide.  Later  she  was  transferred  to  the  Headquar- 
ters for  Reconstruction  Aides,  connected  with  Base 
Hospital  34  in  Nantez,  where  she  served  from  No- 
vember 10,  1918  to  May  16,  1919,  when  her  U.  S.  A. 
unit  was  sent  home,  but  she  joined  the  Smith  Col- 
lege Relief  Unit  in  the  Somme,  having  charge  of  the 
children's  work  until  September  6,  when  she  came 
home. 

Edith,  next  in  age,  married  E.  Prebble  Harris, 
who  is  in  the  iron  construction  business.  They  re- 
side at  Forest  River,  a  suburb  of  Chicago.  She 
spent  two  years  at  Smith  College. 

Ruth,  the  fourth  daughter,  is  to  finish,  December 
24th,  a  three  years'  nurses'  training  course  at  St. 
Luke's  Hospital,  Chicago. 

Surely,  this  family,  in  its  noble  commitment  to  the 
tender  humanities,  honors  the  parents  and  speaks 
of  something  inbred. 


36  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


LEWIS  GRIEVE  FARMER 
15  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Down  to  the  time  of  Frost's  record,  Farmer  had 
sustained  quasi-judicial  relations  to  the  Bankruptcy- 
Court  as  Referee,  and  to  other  Courts  as  Auditor, 
Referee  and  Master  in  Chancery.  In  1907  he  was 
obliged  to  step  aside  from  his  hard  work  for  a  while 
and  give  serious  attention  to  his  physical  condition 
which  he  had  assumed  was  invulnerable  against 
severe  application.  In  very  truth,  nervous  prostra- 
tion, not  uncommon  to  imperfect  constitutions,  had 
cracked  the  superior  vigor  of  our  athlete.  In  ad- 
dition to  his  quasi-judicial  burdens,  he  was  Secre- 
tary of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Cemetery  of  Mount 
Vernon,  with  a  fine  office  and  a  liberal  salary,  and 
had  a  good  list  of  permanent  clients.  Too  much 
strain  will  pull  a  draft  horse  off  his  feet,  and  that 
big  knot  of  nerves  at  the  head  of  the  spine  has  all 
the  vulnerability  of  the  heel  of  Achilles. 

But  in  January  1912,  he  had  recovered  sufficient- 
ly to  resume  practice  of  law.  The  judges  were  very 
considerate  when  they  found  "Richard  was  himself 
again,"  so  that,  with  Master's  and  Auditor's  cases, 
receiverships,  trusteeships  in  bankruptcy,  and  the 
examination  of  titles  for  the  Land  Court,  he  has 
kept  up  with  the  procession.  In  March  1917,  his 
good  friend,  Sam  McCall,  appointed  him  one  of  the 
Public  Administrators  for  Suffolk  County,  bringing 
to  him  responsible  duties  for  which  he  is  fit  and 
which  he  enjoys. 

His  health  is  very  good,  and  he  is  not  yet  ready  to 
drop  his  golf  clubs.  His  wife  is  well,  and  devoted 
like    grand-daddy   to   the   seven    grandchildren,    of 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  37 

whom  Allen  B.,  Dart.  1903,  is  the  father  of  one, 
Marian  W.,  the  mother  of  three,  and  Malcom,  Shef- 
field 1904,  the  father  of  three.  Both  Allen  B.  and 
Malcom  are  very  successful  business  men  and 
Marian  did  great  work  during  the  war  as  one  of 
Hoover's  assistants  and  as  superintendent  of  a  thou- 
sand-woman operatives  in  an  air-plane  factory. 
During  the  late  election  she  stumped  Pennsylvania 
for  Harding.  "Rusty"  has  the  old-time  confidence 
in  a  Democratic  Captain  for  the  Ship  of  State,  al- 
though he  has  survived  many  mortal  voyages  with 
commanders  whom  he  did  not  choose. 

I  suppose  there  is  scarcely  a  person  in  the  class 
who  knows  the  origin  of  the  tenacious  name  of 
"Rusty."  It  was  attributed  to  the  famous  serenade 
in  our  Freshman  year  on  the  return  of  the  French 
language  professor  from  his  wedding  trip,  in  which 
affair  our  classmate  was  more  easily  recognized 
than  other  Freshmen  by  reason  of  a  jack  o'  lantern 
of  pumpkin  variety  carried  on  his  head  in  the  pro- 
cession, for  which  awful  offense  it  was  hastily  guess- 
ed that  he  was  "rusticated"  to  pass  a  time  in  exile 
with  some  country  parson  in  hard  study. 

The  fact  was,  the  only  penalty  imposed  was  to 
remain  out  of  recitations  the  balance  of  the  term 
with  "Bill"  Evans  of  our  class  as  tutor,  and  the 
name  was  "wished"  on  him  by  "Bill"  as  a  bit  of  his 
abounding  humor,  perhaps  suggested  by  the  Latin 
word  "rusticus"  as  the  equivalent  of  Farmer.  It 
may  be  wicked  at  this  late  date  to  invade  the  sacred 
realms  of  tradition,  still  our  classmate  should  not  be 
associated  with  Romulus  and  Remus  and  immortal- 
ized with  the  tradition  of  nurture  in  the  skim-milk 
study  of  a  parson,  ignoring  the  trying  task  of  Evans, 
hanging  onto  the  straining  leash  of  this  thorough- 
bred courser. 


38  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

It  is  a  great  event  to  meet  "Rusty,"  feel  his  gen- 
erous soul  in  the  warmth  of  his  salutations,  as  I  have 
had  the  privilege  far  too  infrequently,  and  to  see 
that  years  and  close  application  have  not  changed 
a  most  frank  and  loyal  nature.  I  always,  on  leav- 
ing him,  soliloquize,  "Sure,  it  seems  just  like  the  old- 
time  bursting  exuberance  of  strong  life  and  lasting 
friendship." 


ARTHUR  GREEN  FITZ 
Born  1848-8-10;  died  1902-3-13 

Nothing  need  be  added  to  the  former  History. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  39 


GEORGE  HARLEY  FLETCHER 
165  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Since  the  History  of  Frost,  Fletcher  has  continued 
substantially  in  the  same  lines  of  everyday  life. 
His  wife  still  remains  active  mistress  of  her  house- 
hold; his  boys  have  prospered.  Both  Henry  and 
Robert  fell  into  currents  in  the  Preparatory  School 
of  Brooklyn  which  led  them  to  Yale,  where  they  had 
honorable  careers  and  graduated  respectively  in 
1898  and  1901.  They  both  subsequently  attended 
Harvard  Law  School  and  took  their  degrees  in  due 
course  in  1901  and  1904. 

Henry  broke  the  record  in  that  school  as  the  first 
non-Harvard  man  to  become  Treasurer  as  well  as 
one  of  the  editors  of  the  Harvard  Law  Review. 
After  proper  clerkship  with  prominent  law  firms 
outside  the  family,  they  commenced  their  practice 
of  law  in  New  York  City,  and  in  due  course  Henry 
became  the  head  of  the  firm  of  Fletcher,  Sillcocks 
&  Leahy,  composed  entirely  of  his  Yale  Classmates 
and  roommates,  which  firm  later  Robert  joined. 
They  continued  the  practice  of  their  profession  with 
honor  and  success  under  that  name  until  the  consol- 
idation of  their  firm  with  others  as  noted  later. 

The  professional  life  of  their  father  has  been  a 
course  of  slow  but  consistent  growth.  The  firm  of 
Fletcher,  McCutcheon  &  Brown  had  arisen  from  an 
office  association  in  which  the  three  partners  were 
originally  office  mates  and  in  which  one  of  them  was 
also  the  son  of  a  long  time  office  associate  who 
had  reached  the  age  of  retirement.  This  firm  con- 
tinued until  1915  when  Mr.  McCutcheon  (Yale  70) 
was  taken  out  of  the  firm  by  death;  the  survivors 
continued  under  the  same  firm  name  until  April, 


40  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

1920,  when  Fletcher,  McCutcheon  &  Brown,  Fletch- 
er, Sillcocks  &  Leahy,  Blair  &  Rudd  and  Blair  & 
Twyeffort,  all  of  whom  had  been  long  and  closely 
allied  by  office  association  and  general  business  con- 
nection, were  consolidated  in  the  present  firm  of 
Fletcher,  Brown,  Sillcocks  &  Twyeffort,  under 
which  name  they  are  now  associated  at  No.  165 
Broadway,  New  York  City,  and  at  Fifth  Avenue, 
corner  44th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Apart  from  strictly  professional  work,  Fletcher's 
life  has  been  varied  by  several  foreign  tours  com- 
mencing in  1889  when  he  established  his  sons  in  the 
Gymnasia,  Hannover,  Germany,  and  by  annual 
trips  to  different  parts  of  the  United  States  includ- 
ing the  Yellowstone  National  Park  and  Alaska. 
These,  with  alternate  weeks  during  the  summer  at 
Spring  Lake  Beach,  New  Jersey,  with  incidental 
gardening  and  motoring,  have  furnished  rest  and 
recreation.  Also  he  is,  and  has  been  for  more  than 
ten  years,  the  President  of  the  Spring  Lake  Casino 
which  is  a  bathing  and  tennis  club,  and  besides  is  a 
member  of  the  Riding  and  Driving  Club  of  Brook- 
lyn. 

His  son  Henry  was  married  to  May  Sinclair  Sloan 
on  June  7th,  1909.  She  died  November  26th, 
1910.  His  present  wife  was  Ethel  Thompson  to 
whom  he  was  married  on  June  3rd,  1913.  They 
have  no  children.     Robert  is  still  unmarried. 

In  addition  to  his  law  practice,  his  son  Henry  is 
also  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  the  Swan  &  Finch 
Company  which  has  its  business  office  at  No.  522 
Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City,  in  the  same  building 
with  one  of  the  offices  of  the  law  firm. 

Mrs.  Fletcher,  as  well  as  her  husband,  her  two 
sons  and  her  son's  wife,  were  active  in  service  of 
various  kinds  during  the  World  War  either  in  Red 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  41 

Cross  work,  inspection  of  War  Boards  or  in  Appeal 
service  in  connection  with  the  Draft  Enforcement 
Board  in  the  city  and  country  between  which  they 
divided  their  time. 

Their  political  and  religious  affiliations  and  be- 
liefs continue  as  outlined  in  our  former  History.  His 
son  Henry  is  Treasurer  of  the  Citizens'  Union,  which 
remains  active  in  its  guard  over  the  local  affairs  of 
New  York  City,  and  is  a  sharp  critic  and  opponent 
of  Tammany  Hall.  He  is  also  a  deacon  in  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  of  New  York.  His 
summer  residence  is  at  Field  Point  Park,  Green- 
wich, Conn;  his  winter  residence  at  No.  270  Park 
Avenue,  New  York  City. 

Fletcher  has  attended  two  reunions,  on  the  twen- 
ty-fifth and  fortieth  anniversaries  of  graduation, 
and  is  making  his  plans  to  be  present  at  the  fiftieth. 
He  reports  his  health  to  be  excellent,  which  he  at- 
tributes largely  to  regular  exercise  which  consists 
in  part  of  a  daily  morning  walk  from  house  to  office, 
a  distance  of  nearly  four  miles. 


ALBRA  FOGG 
Born  1849-8-10;  died  1913-8-8 

I  learn  from  the  Register  of  Probate  of  Carroll 
County  that  our  classmate  was  considered  one  of 
the  best  citizens  of  the  community  where  he  lived. 
On  account  of  defective  eyes  he  was  hampered  in 
choosing  an  occupation,  and  spent  the  last  years  of 
his  life  in  teaching  schools  in  Ossipee  and  adjoin- 
ing towns.  He  was  given  the  degree  of  A.  M.  by 
Dartmouth. 

I  do  not  learn  that  he  ever  married. 


42  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


WILLIAM  PLUMER  FOWLER 
Born  1850-10-3;  died  1918-7-3 

Although  he  had  had  valvular  heart  trouble  for 
a  long  time,  he  had  been  attending  to  business  and 
was  at  his  office  in  Boston  the  day  before  his  death. 

Quoting  from  an  article  by  Frances  M.  Abbott  in 
the  Granite  Monthly,  "Mr.  Fowler  was  much  more 
than  a  successful  lawyer.  A  man  of  fine  literary 
taste,  conversant  with  the  best  literature  of  the 
world,  a  judicious  philanthropist,  devoting  years  of 
his  life  to  unpaid  services  in  connection  with  the 
city's  important  charities;  a  man  of  domestic  qual- 
ities, whose  immediate  relatives  had  most  occasion 
to  know  his  sterling  worth,— withal  a  religious  man 
who  reverently  followed  the  deeds  of  the  Master  as 
well  as  the  observances  of  the  church,  he  preferred 
the  higher  things  of  life  and  contributed  to  the 
world's  sum  of  good." 

Our  class  History  covers  the  many  important  in- 
terests in  which  he  was  long  engaged  and  to  which 
he  devoted  unstinted  time  and  labor.  Quite  close 
to  the  time  of  his  death  he  acted  as  corporation 
counsel  for  Boston  to  bridge  over  a  gap,  for  which 
he  received  the  warmest  thanks  of  Mayor  Peters. 
By  Governor  Foss  he  was  appointed  Chairman  of 
the  Boston  License  Board,  an  important  commission 
controlling  every  liquor  license  in  Boston.  His  ap- 
pointment was  unpopular  among  the  machine  poli- 
ticians of  each  party,  because  it  meant  emphatically 
that  the  Chairman  would  not  be  part  or  parcel  of 
either  machine,  or  under  the  influence  of  the  liquor 
dealers. 

Soon  after  his  death,  as  a  permanent  memorial  in 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  43 

honor  of  his  devotion  to  the  poor  of  his  city  and  the 
prevention  of  poverty,  friends  started  a  fund  for  the 
Industrial  Aid  Society  to  be  known  as  the  William 
P.  Fowler  Fund.  The  Society  had  existed  for 
seventy  years,  and  of  it  he  had  been  president  since 
1900.  It  was  said  by  the  founders  of  the  Fund, 
"The  lesson  of  such  a  life  should  not  pass  unheed- 
ed."*** "In  this  way  his  influence  will  still  give  aid 
and  comfort  to  that  large  class  of  unfortunates  that 
he  helped  when  living."  The  original  name  of  the 
Society  was  suggestive  of  its  purpose,  "Prevention 
of  Pauperism." 

For  many  years  he  was  a  parishioner  of  Edward 
Everett  Hale,  a  close  friend,  and  from  him  he  ac- 
quired many  of  his  ideals,  broad  religious  views  and 
wide  interest  in  human  affairs.  In  memoriam,  said 
the  Benevolent  Fraternity  of  Unitarian  Churches, 
"As  a  wise  counsellor,  a  faithful  and  efficient  stew- 
ard of  its  funds  and  as  a  constructor  and  preserver 
of  its  buildings,  he  rendered  services  of  inestimable 
value.  A  man  of  irreproachable  character,  just  and 
honorable  in  all  his  dealings." 

Besides  his  widow,  he  was  survived  by  two  sons, 
William  P.  and  Philip,  and  a  daughter,  Katharine. 
William  P.  is  a  Senior  at  Dartmouth  and  after  grad- 
uating will  take  a  year  at  Harvard  in  the  Law 
School,  and  then  determine  whether  he  will  be  a 
lawyer,  guided  by  what  he  discovers  to  be  his  prob- 
able fitness  and  taste.  Philip  is  fitting  himself  for 
college  at  the  Country  Day  School  in  Newton  and 
when  fitted  expects  to  go  to  Dartmouth.  Katharine 
is  taking  her  last  year  at  Windsor  School  in  Boston, 
and  next  autumn  intends  to  go  to  Bryn  Mawr  Col- 
lege. Everything  in  the  education  of  the  children 
is  proceeding  according  to  the  plans  of  the  father. 


44  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


JOSEPH  ALLEN  FREEMAN 
Born  1841-11-14;  died  1906-9-15 

He  died  suddenly  by  reason  of  heart  failure.  He 
was  then  pastor  of  Deep  River  Congregational 
Church,  Connecticut,  having  been  there  only  since 
April,  1906.  It  was  said  of  him,  "As  a  preacher, 
able  and  impressive,  of  sweet  and  evangelical  spirit, 
— in  the  best  sense  a  gospel  preacher,  ever  seeking 
to  win  souls  to  Christ.  In  pastoral  work  he  was  es- 
pecially apt,  appealing  to  all  classes  with  a  tender- 
ness and  sympathy  that  made  him  a  true  shepherd. " 

He  was  survived  by  a  wife,  a  son,  George  H.,  a 
lawyer  of  Waterbury,  Conn.,  of  excellent  standing, 
and  a  daughter  living  with  her  mother  at  home. 

I  had  a  unique  experience  with  "Joe"  in  1871.  It 
was  characteristic  of  his  frank  nature.  We  were 
competing  with  eager  interest  for  a  prize  in  speak- 
ing, and  he  proposed  that  we  go  to  the  woods  and 
hear  each  other  speak  and  criticise.  We  did  so, 
and  one  can  never  forget  such  a  revelation  of  qual- 
ities of  heart  in  another. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  45 


ASA   MILTON  FRENCH 
Corpus  Christi,  Texas 

"French  1st."  knew  the  object  of  study  whereby 
he  attained  such  high  rank  in  Mathematics,  and  he 
has  made  remarkably  good  use  of  that  training  ever 
since.  When  Frost  gave  him  the  degree,  C.  E.  pro 
meritus,  Asa  was  Chief  Engineer  of  the  St.  L.  B.  & 
M.  Ry.  in  Texas,  and  he  kept  right  on  as  such  until 
August  1903,  having  finished  the  location  of  the 
line  from  the  Nueces  River  on  the  north  to  Browns- 
ville on  the  Rio  Grande.  This  was  all  new  line 
work  on  a  road  chartered  in  1903,  requiring  a  C.  E. 
of  experience  and  tried  capacity. 

Besides  that  kind  of  work,  he  turned  his  attention 
to  land  surveying,  principally  connected  with  Court 
surveys  and  the  arbitration  of  lines.  He  entered 
the  law  firm  of  McCampbells  &  Stayton  in  April, 
1907,  chiefly  to  take  charge  of  abstract  work  in 
Nueces  County.  Mr.  Stayton  dying  in  September, 
Asa  took  over  the  abstract  work  until  1914,  when 
he  sold  out.  In  1907  he  was  of  the  firm  of  French 
&  Haberer,  Civil  Engineers  and  Land  Surveyors,  in 
which  firm  he  remained  until  1916,  cutting  up  about 
250,000  acres  of  large  cattle  ranches  into  quarter- 
sections,  for  farming. 

Since  then  he  has  done  as  much  of  similar  work 
as  he  cared  to  do.  It  is  plain  that  he  has  done  a 
large  amount  of  work  of  importance  and  respons- 
ibility. Since  the  organization  of  the  First  State 
Bank  of  Corpus  Christi  in  1907,  more  than  a  two- 
million  dollar  bank,  he  has  been  a  director. 

He  is  in  good  health,  and  thought  he  had  retired 
from  active  professional  service  in  1918,  but  war 
conditions    and    severe    storms    in    1919,    affecting 


46  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

farming  returns,  induced  him  to  get  into  the  harness 
again.  He  had  had  two  farms  to  look  after  all 
along,  and  Texas  weather  freaks  make  farming  a 
little  precarious. 

In  war  time  Asa  was  one  of  the  'Tour  Minute'7 
speakers  who  stirred  people  of  means  to  action, 
took  a  hand  in  all  the  bond  selling  and  war  charity 
"Drives,"  took  his  share  of  the  various  bond 
issues  as  assigned  by  the  Committee,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board  of  his  County, 
being  one  of  only  two  who  could  speak  Spanish  to 
the  resident  Mexicans,  subject  to  the  draft  ques- 
tionnaire. Six  years  service  as  School  Trustee  of 
the  Corpus  Christi  Indian  School  District  is  to  his 
credit. 

His  wife  and  children  are  all  well  and  his  daugh- 
ter, Anna  Maude,  lives  with  her  parents  and  is  un- 
married. Mrs.  French  took  a  lively  interest  in  the 
last  election.  The  older  son,  Francis,  did  his  best 
in  war  time  to  get  into  the  navy  and  later  the  army, 
but  a  slight  physical  trouble  disqualified  him  so  he 
continued  to  work  where  he  had  been,  in  a  ship  yard. 
The  other  son,  Herbert,  waited  until  he  graduated 
from  the  High  School  in  1918,  and  then  tried  for  the 
navy  but  was  found  too  light  for  his  height,  so  he 
tried  for  the  aviation  and  passed  all  the  tests  but 
was  too  late  to  get  into  service.  He  is  now  in  the 
Kansas  State  A.  &  M.  College,  studying  mechanical 
engineering. 

The  Republican  party  still  has  attractions  for 
Asa,  but  he  is  not  going  to  exalt  the  party  to  the 
skies  unless  it  qualifies  by  mighty  deeds  rather  than 
by  the  glory  of  mighty  land-slides.  He  was  at  our 
reunion  in  1912,  and  nothing  less  than  a  Texas  cy- 
clone or  something  unlooked  for  will  keep  him  and 
his  enterprising  wife  from  being  at  Hanover  in  1922. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  47 


GEORGE  BARSTOW  FRENCH 

Nashua,  N.  H. 

None  of  his  classmates  are  near  enough  to  him  to 
have  much  knowledge  of  his  law  practice  or  be- 
havior, therefore  this  report  should  be  accepted 
with  grains  of  salt.  He  has  plodded  along  the 
lines  indicated  in  our  former  History,  with  no  such 
indications  of  senile  lesion  as  it  would  be  kind  to 
notice.  Some  ten  years  ago  he  slackened  his  pace 
by  gradually  shunting  jury  trials,  and  thereby  has 
found  more  time  and  comfort  in  administering 
various  trusts,  of  which  he  has  had  enough  to  keep 
him  from  rusting  out,  along  with  equity  matters  and 
office  practice. 

He  has  had  no  good  reason  to  complain  of  what 
has  come  to  his  business  lot  but  is  contented.  In 
most  cases  before  the  courts  he  found  listening 
minds  with  fair  approval  of  his  discussions  of  law. 
In  politics  he  has  been  a  Republican.  In  1912  he 
became  President  of  a  Non-Partisan  Civic  League  in 
his  city,  organized  to  secure  a  new  and  up-to-date 
charter,  participated  in  its  preparation,  the  securing 
of  its  enactment  and  its  adoption  by  the  voters.  It 
is  unique  among  other  city  charters  of  this  state. 
He  was  appointed  Chairman  of  the  Legal  Advisory 
Board  for  his  district,  to  aid  in  the  draft,  and  served 
several  months,  1917-1918.  His  clients  and  the 
community  seem  to  continue  to  regard  him  with  con- 
fidence and  favor.  During  the  war  he  co-operated 
in  all  the  "drives"  as  earnestly  as  his  nature  and 
ability  allowed. 

In  the  out-door  life,  he  has  indulged  "ad  libitum" 
since  1904.  Fishing  for  salmon  in  Newfoundland 
ten  seasons  from  1906,  his  opinion  of  the  sport  is, 


48  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

"nothing  so  royal."  Tracking  deer  on  the  snows  of 
Maine  and  New  Hampshire  for  25  years,  his  dreams 
have  been  haunted  by  forty  "departed  spirits."  Not 
a  few  whirring  ducks  and  partridges  disturb  the  ser- 
enity of  his  conscience,  and  he  has  lured  into  the 
frying-pan  thousands  of  trout  and  black  bass. 
These  diversions,  in  his  opinion,  have  served  to  pro- 
long his  life,  and  make  his  working  days  more  effi- 
cient and  useful. 

Mrs.  French  is  alive  and  in  fairly  good  health. 
Their  older  son,  Robert  A.,  Dart.  1905,  A.  B.,  Har- 
vard Univ.,  1908,  L.  B.,  practiced  law  along  side  of 
his  father  until  May  1918,  when,  failing  to  pass  the 
severe  physical  examination  for  the  Tank  Corps  in 
which  he  sought  to  enlist,  he  was  operated  on  for 
his  defect,  hernia,  and,  not  to  be  denied  doing  his 
bit  in  army  service,  offered  himself  again,  was  com- 
missioned a  Captain  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  July  29,  1918, 
and  assigned  to  the  Military  Intelligence  Dept.  of 
the  General  Staff  at  Washington,  D.  C,  where  he 
died  in  the  service,  Dec.  17,  1918,  of  the  influenza 
then  prevailing.  He  was  highly  spoken  of  by  his 
superior  officers  as  capable,  diligent,  dutiful  and 
valuable  in  his  line  of  work.  In  Nashua  he  was  rat- 
ed as  a  good  lawyer,  affable,  kindly  considerate  of 
everybody  and  without  an  enemy.  In  1912  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention;  in  1913- 
15-17,  three  successive  terms,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Legislature;  1911-12,  member  of  City  Council; 
1916  to  decease,  Alderman  of  his  Ward;  and  Aug. 
31,  1917,  appointed  special  justice  of  the  Police 
Court  of  Nashua,  which  office  he  held  until  he  died. 

The  other  son,  George  M.,  Dart.  1911,  A.  B.,  Bos- 
ton Univ.  1914,  L.  L.  B.,  "cum  laude,"  opened  an 
office  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  in  1914  and  practiced 
law  there  until  June  1917,  when  he  enlisted  in  the 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  49 

Massachusetts  National  Guard  as  a  private,  and  his 
company  became  a  part  of  the  104th  U.  S.  Infantry. 
In  early  October,  the  104th  Regiment,  a  part  of  Gen. 
Edwards'  26th  (Y.  D.)  Division,  sailed  for  France. 
After  three  months'  intensive  training,  the  division 
was  sent  up  to  the  front  of  the  Chemin  des  Dames 
to  get  experience  in  the  trenches  along  side  of  the 
French  Army  Corps. 

From  Feb.  19,  1918  until  July  17  his  regiment 
participated  in  various  encounters  and  battles  with- 
out much  rest  until  the  Aisne-Marne  offensive,  dur- 
ing which  Sgt.  French  was  gassed  and  in  September 
sent  to  Base  Hospital  No.  6  at  Bordeaux.  His 
recovery  being  slow,  he  was  sent  back  to  the  U.  S. 
Nov.  5,  1918,  and  in  Feb.  1919  was  discharged  from 
the  Army  at  U.  S.  Gen.  Hospital  No.  9  at  Lakewood, 
N.  J.,  in  fair  physical  condition.  In  May  1919  he 
became  a  partner  with  his  father  at  Nashua.  Sept. 
18,  1920,  he  married  Miss  Margaret  Whittemore,  of 
Middletown,  Ohio. 

The  elder  daughter,  Ruth  H.,  Smith  Col.  1902, 
B.  A.,  Columbia  Univ.  1910,  B.  S.,  taught  in  New 
York  one  year,  was  abroad  1912-1913;  was  the  first 
woman  to  serve  as  a  member  of  the  Nashua  Board 
of  Education,  1913-19;  from  Feb.  1918  to  May  1919 
in  the  War  Dept.  Intelligence  Bureau;  is  now  Ex- 
ecutive Sec.  of  Voluntary  Service,  Metropolitan 
Chapter  of  American  Red  Cross  at  Boston,  Mass. 

The  other  daughter,  Helen  B.,  graduated  from 
Nashua  High  School,  1902,  attended  Abbott  Acad- 
emy, Andover,  Mass.,  a  year,  Smith  College  a  year, 
when  it  was  deemed  best  for  her  to  rest  a  while 
from  study  and  give  good  health  the  right-of-way. 
Good  health  resulted,  enabling  her  to  be  active  and 
all  the  time  occupied  in  many  home  and  community 
matters  which  thoroughly  interest  her. 


50  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


WILLIAM  WESLEY  FRENCH 
Livermore,  Calif. 

"French  3rd"  steadily  and  successfully  practiced 
law  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  until  some  four  years  ago, 
and  was  Judge  of  the  local  District  Court.  He  was 
then  induced  to  cease  "boring  for  water"  before 
juries,  attack  the  oil  resources  of  California  and 
manage  a  company  organized  to  drill  deep  enough 
to  tap  the  fountains  of  the  earth.  For  two  years 
he  attended  to  that  business,  and  then  found  that  it 
would  take  more  time  than  was  expected  to  release 
the  pent-up  flood,  therefore  he  resigned  his  judge- 
ship in  the  District  Court,  the  same  being  accepted 
regretfully  with  complimentary  allusions  by  Gov. 
Sam  McCall. 

Then  our  classmate  settled  down  with  smiling  de- 
termination to  see  the  oil  out,  if  the  drilling  process 
reached  to  the  sulphurous  regions.  He  is  General 
Manager  of  the  Atlantic  &  Western  Oil  Co.,  located 
in  its  operations  at  Livermore,  California.  A  news 
item  furnished  me  shows  the  identical  formation  to 
discover  which  settees  and  chairs  used  used  to  be 
turned  upside  down  by  excited  '72  men  in  Culver 
Hall.  After  drilling  down  3,000  feet,  it  was  found 
that  only  the  well  remembered  sandstone  measures 
of  the  Tertiary  era  and  Cretaceous  period  obstruct- 
ed auriferous  oil  from  boiling  into  countless  eagles. 

Six  months  was  at  first  considered  ample  time  for 
a  Manager,  who  had  always  succeeded  in  one  brief 
hour  in  drilling  any  jury  into  submission,  to  finish 
the  Cal.  job,  but  "Tertium"  confesses  that  Prof. 
Hitchcock's  instruction  in  Geology  did  not  reach  to 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  51 

the  oil  region,  still  he  knows  that  the  hidden  emo- 
tions below  the  sandstone  crust  cannot  much  longer 
be  suppressed.  New  England  capital  will  get  there 
seasonably,  when  he  expects  to  come  East  where 
his  wife  is  waiting,  and  no  doubt  in  1922  the 
widow's  cruse  of  oil  will  be  on  tap  at  Hanover. 

He  is  in  such  good  health  that  he  thinks  he  could 
play  a  respectable  game  of  base  ball,  so  that,  if 
Miller  will  hitch  up  his  always  troublesome  waist- 
band and  encourage  Farmer,  Dana,  Welch,  Ed 
Bartlett,  Fletcher,  Williams  and  Tom  Galbraith  to 
join  him,  we  would  have  a  constellation  to  eclipse 
any  class  that  ever  met  at  its  fiftieth  anniversary. 
It  is  something  worthy  of  mention,  to  be  in  such 
good  form  and  enterprise  as  to  become  a  veritable 
"Forty-Niner"  at  his  age,  and  it  would  be  spectac- 
ular beyond  all  precedent  to  see  such  an  aggrega- 
tion running  the  bases. 


52  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


ALBERT  ELLIS  FROST 
Born  1851-8-9;  died  1917-5-11 

In  apparent  health,  retiring  at  night  after  a  slight 
indisposition  in  the  afternoon,  he  fell  into  a  peaceful 
sleep  from  which  he  never  awoke  in  this  earthly- 
home. 

"Registrar  of  the  University  of  Pittsburg  for  30 
years,  oldest  member  of  the  faculty  in  continuous 
service,  dearly  loved  by  the  alumni  and  undergrad- 
uates, an  officer  of  numerous  local  Scientific  asso- 
ciations, always  a  citizen  pursuing  high  ideals  in  the 
discharge  of  his  political  duties,  Professor  of  Phys- 
ical Sciences, — nothing  could  compare  with  his 
record  for  friendly  service,  of  self  effacement,  of 
entire  faithfulness  to  the  duties  of  the  day,"  was 
said  of  him  in  the  official  Student  and  Alumni  Jour- 
nal of  the  University. 

What  a  record  of  honor  to  Dartmouth  and  our 
class!  What  better  token  of  devotion  to  us  than 
the  History  of  '72  which  he  produced  in  1904,  after 
numberless  days  of  sacrifice!  We  expected  him  to 
contribute  yet  more  to  our  credit,  and  even  after 
many  of  us  older  men  had  been  laid  to  rest.  Had 
we  anticipated  the  event,  we  doubtless  would  have 
been  far  more  expressive  of  our  high  appreciation 
of  his  inimitable  services. 

Besides  his  wife,  he  was  survived  by  three  chil- 
dren. One  son,  Ellis  M.,  is  a  physician,  also  a  dir- 
ector of  the  Department  of  Student  Health  in  the 
University  of  Pittsburgh  and  an  instructor  in  the 
Medical  School  of  the  same.  He  was  graduated 
from  the  Pennsylvania  Medical  School  in  1908,  mar- 
ried to  Alice  Beel  in  .1913,  and  they  have  one  daugh- 
ter and  two  sons. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  53 

The  second  son,  Albert  D.,  graduated  from  the 
School  of  Economics  of  the  University  of  Pittsburgh, 
and  later  from  the  Medical  School  of  the  same,  and 
is  serving  a  two-year  internship  at  Bellevue  Hospital 
New  York  City. 

The  daughter,  Helen,  graduated  from  College, 
was  a  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Branch  Secretary  four  years,  then 
married  in  June  1920,  J.  Howard  Dice,  Librarian  of 
the  Pittsburgh  University. 

Mrs.  Frost  in  a  letter  to  me  expresses  the  idea 
that  her  late  husband  would  have  had  this  full  con- 
nection of  the  children  with  the  University  to  his 
heart,  and  we  are  quite  of  the  same  opinion.  She 
is  in  very  good  health  so  far  as  she  knows. 


54  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


GEORGE  THOMAS  GALBRAITH 
Hopewell  Junction,  N.  Y. 

In  1904  our  classmate  was  preaching  at  Pleasant 
Valley,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  until  1905,  when 
on  account  of  the  permanent  physical  weakness  of 
his  wife  he  found  it  impossible  to  remain  longer  in 
charge  of  a  parish  and  continue  preaching.  He 
then  resorted  to  farming  places  on  shares  for  10 
years  in  several  localities  and  finally  bought  a  farm 
of  135  acres  where  he  now  lives,  managing  it  as  a 
dairy  farm.  But  he  has  never  found  farming  re- 
munerative and  is  getting  discouraged  because  of 
that  and  his  impaired  physical  condition.  In  April 
1918  he  wrote  me  that  he  was  sadly  crippled  on  his 
right  side  and  in  his  back  by  supposed  sciatica  or 
injury  to  his  spine,  and  February  1921,  he  wrote 
that  his  condition  had  grown  worse  so  that  he  could 
work  only  sitting,  walk  but  a  short  distance  with  ex- 
cruciating pain,  deaf  in  one  ear  and  eye-sight  dim, 
and  probably  never  able  to  do  any  more  work. 

His  wife  died  in  November  1917,  and  that  made 
him  very  lonely,  for  she  was  his  help-meet  and 
main-stay  in  all  his  work,  brave,  prudent  and  cul- 
tured, sister  of  Rev.  Robert  J.  Service,  D.  D.,  Dart. 
1877,  and  Rev.  William  A.  Service,  Dart.  1880. 

Tom's  older  son,  John  S.,  has  been  with  him  on 
the  farm  and  has  "stuck"  by  on  the  job,  although 
not  physically  equal  to  such  hard  work.  Herbert 
Leslie,  the  younger  son,  was  in  the  16th  Cavalry  on 
the  Mexican  border  and  since  that  service  has  re-en- 
listed twice,  in  several  Cavalry  regiments  and  been 
1st  Sergeant  in  the   Coast  Artillery,   stationed   at 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  55 

Fort  Fisher,  and  was  a  mounted  Orderly  with  Gen. 
Pershing  in  the  Philippines,  and  although  he  tried 
his  best  to  get  assigned  to  service  "Over-seas,"  was 
doomed  to  disappointment. 

The  older  daughter,  Ethel  May,  in  1901  married 
Don  C.  Styles  and  they  have  four  daughters  and  live 
at  St.  Johnsbury.  He  went  "Over-seas''  in  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  work,  A.  E.  F.,  looking  after  soldiers  in  England 
and  France  who  required  diversion  and  rescue  at- 
tention. 

The  younger  daughter,  Edith  J.,  is  unmarried  like 
the  two  sons,  is  an  expert  accountant  in  the  Mer- 
chants National  Bank,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.  "Tom" 
writes  that  he  has  a  warm  side  for  the  "Boys"  of  '72, 
but  on  account  of  his  physical  infirmities  can  hardly 
expect  to  greet  the  living  men  at  the  reunion  in 
1922,  although  it  grieves  him  sorely.  His  condition 
is  surely  pathetic  and  commands  our  tender  sym- 
pathy. His  letter  of  Feb.  8,  seemed  rather  blue  in 
one  aspect,  but  still  was  brightened  with  silver 
threads  of  Christian  philosophy,  and  faith  that 
"over  there"  we  would  have  a  glad  reunion  of  those 
now  missing  here  and  those  that  before  many  years 
will  also  be  missed. 


56  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


WILLIAM  HENRY  GALBRAITH 
Santa  Cruz,  Calif. 

After  experimenting  quite  a  number  of  years  in 
teaching  and  studying  law,  the  tall  spruce  of  the 
Passumpsic  heard  a  clear  admonition  that  seden- 
tary, house-plant  life  was  not  likely  to  be  invigor- 
ating enough,  but  that  he  should  set  its  roots  in 
good,  big,  mother  earth,  spread  out  and  reach  up- 
ward with  long  limbs  where  there  was  plenty  of 
fresh  ozone  and  sunlight. 

The  ranch  in  Blackburn  Gulch  in  the  foot-hills  of 
the  Santa  Cruz  Mountains  has  continued  to  main- 
tain the  healthy  color  of  the  dark  top,  while  grapes 
and  orchard  fruit  have  loaded  the  long  limbs  which 
used  to  be  the  terror  of  cane-rushes.  The  vigor  as- 
sured by  ranch  life  has  made  "Hen"  able  in  the  dis- 
charge of  such  public  duties  as  have  fallen  to  his  lot 
along  the  years.  Thus  it  was  in  1904  and  thus  it 
has  been  ever  since.  His  natural  "make-up"  lured 
him  out  of  doors  where  he  could  "tickle"  the  earth 
and  make  it  laugh  with  fruitfulness,  and  besides,  he 
had  a  weakness  for  brook  trout,  in  and  out  of  water. 
I  had  a  fine  chance  to  discover  his  natural  leanings 
when,  after  our  graduation,  we  fed  at  Prof.  Hitch- 
cock^ pilot-bread  trencher,  along  with  Fletcher  and 
others,  setting  up  signal  cloths  on  the  lesser  peaks 
near  the  Crawford  Notch,  and  also,  a  vacation  from 
teaching  in  1873,  when  we  scoured  the  Saco  River 
and  its  tributaries  for  brook  trout. 

As  the  years  crept  away  he  reduced  his  ranch 
acreage  by  a  sale,  but  retained  enough  to  give  him 
the  out-door  life  and  exercise,  and  for  some  time  he 
has  been  putting  the  balance  into  shape  to  be  ready 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  57 

for  an  advantageous  market,  only  toiling  as  much 
as  is  agreeable  and  healthful.  His  boarding  place 
is  only  six  miles  out  of  town,  so  that  he  can  circulate 
back  and  forth  between  his  ranch  and  Santa  Cruz, 
where  he  and  his  wife  have  their  home,  and  as  he 
writes,  feeling  "young  and  sprightly,"  he  looks  for- 
ward to  no  particular  change  of  activity,  and  his 
"heart  untraveled  fondly  turns"  to  our  golden  re- 
union in  1922.  He  is  still  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  I  had  the  privilege  of  reading  a  clipping  from  a 
Santa  Cruz  paper  containing  some  long-arm  punch- 
es and  upper-cuts  of  his  at  Senator  Phelan,  and  Gov. 
Cox,  who  now  abides  in  Ohio,  evidencing  the  un- 
abated force  of  thought  and  delivery  of  "Hen." 

May  we  all  survive  to  see  the  tall  spruce  of  Pas- 
sumpsic  at  Hanover  in  1922,  and  shake  his  long 
limbs. 

Vermont  lent  him  to  the  better  climate  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  for  securing  long  life,  but  now  the 
longing  "which  draws  at  each  remove  a  lengthened 
chain"  must  be  given  its  proper  function  for  a  visit, 
and  after  that  we  will  regretfully  say,  "Joshua,  your 
grapes  and  other  fruit  are  very  enticing  and  sure 
proof  of  a  Promised  Land,  but  it  is  too  late  for  us  to 
pull  up  and  leave  the  Wilderness  where  we  have  be- 
come inured  to  poor  manna  and  quail." 


58  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


FRED  HARVEY  GOULD 
Born  1849-12-18;  died  1909-7-3 

Fred  died  of  complications,  after  three  weeks  of 
sickness,  following  an  earlier  attack  of  acute  pneu- 
monia. 

Said  a  life-long  associate  and  brother  attorney: 
"A  salient  feature  of  his  character  was  honesty. 
There  was  about  him  a  gracious  atmosphere  of 
good-will  toward  everybody.  As  a  practicing  law- 
yer for  more  than  thirty  years  his  integrity  was 
never  impugned." 

Personally  I  had  especial  knowledge  of  Fred.  He 
was  not  only  a  good  lawyer,  but  a  fine  sportsman, 
lover  of  the  out-door  life,  fond  of  pointer  dogs,  an 
expert  fly  fisherman  and  a  warm  friend  to  meet. 
His  tastes  were  similar  to  those  of  Jarvis  of  our 
class.  They  were  crack  shots,  even  when  at  col- 
lege, and  many  were  the  days  afield  when  game 
had  to  fly  very  quick  and  crooked  to  escape  their 
guns.  I  suppose  Fred  knew  where  every  covey  of 
partridges  hatched  around  Bradford  and  Warner, 
and,  if  there  was  a  place  in  Sunapee  Lake  where 
brook  trout  and  salmon  lurked,  he  knew  that  place. 

His  wife  survived  him,  and  resides  at  Bradford, 
N.  H.  His  only  child,  a  daughter,  very  dear  to  her 
parents,  died  in  infancy. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  59 


WILLIAM  EDGAR  HOGAN 

We  find  our  classmate's  face  in  the  picture  of 
those  of  our  class,  taken  at  the  reunion  in  1912,  and 
we  recall  the  appearance  of  good  health  at  that 
time. 

He  writes  that  his  chief  activity  in  these  later 
years  has  been  a  long  hard  struggle  with  an  illness 
that  threatened  to  transfer  him  to  the  obituary 
column,  but  that  he  has  won  out  and  is  now  in  act- 
ive practice.  While  he  was  making  this  fight  for 
life,  his  wife  died.  They  were  not  blessed  with 
children. 

He  is  the  senior  member  of  the  County  Bar,  and 
has  a  number  of  good  fights  left  to  draw  upon  for 
emergency  calls. 


WILLIAM  AUGUSTUS  HOLMAN 
Born  1849-11-27;  died  1893-5-24 

The  report  in  Frost's  History  is  complete. 


60  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


FRANCIS  DORR  HUTCHINS 
Born  1850-1-11;  died  1905-8-5 

He  died  of  a  stroke  of  apoplexy,  lingering  two 
weeks  after  it  came.  He  kept  at  his  post  of  duty  in 
banking  to  the  end.  Dying  so  soon  after  the  record 
of  his  activities  in  1904,  there  is  nothing  essentially 
different  to  report.  His  wife  survived  him,  and  a 
son  and  daughter. 

His  son,  Harry,  Dartmouth  1900,  A.  B.,  married 
Emilie  T.  Hilliard,  May,  1902,  who  died  in  March 
1907,  leaving  a  son,  Frank  H.,  born  May  1,  1903. 
Harry  married  Elizabeth  R.  Moore  in  March  1916, 
who  died  in  June,  1916.  He  was  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work  in  England  and  France  from  July  1918  to  June 
1919,  and  is  now  in  Chicago.  His  son,  Frank  H.,  is 
a  Freshman  in  the  College  of  Commerce,  University 
of  Illinois. 

Margaret,  Smith  1906,  entered  the  Library  School 
of  the  University  of  Illinois  in  1906,  in  1908  received 
the  degree,  B.  L.  S.,  and  is  now  one  of  the  Reference 
Librarians  in  that  University,  and  unmarried. 

Mrs.  Hutchins  lives  at  805  So.  Busey  Avenue,  Ur- 
bana,  111.  She  writes  of  nothing  to  the  contrary,  so 
we  conclude  that  she  is  in  good  health. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  61 


WILLIAM  JARVIS 
Born  1849-9-15;  died  1910-4-16 

He  died  of  an  apoplectic  shock  after  he  had  ap- 
parently gone  to  sleep. 

From  1897  until  sometime  later  than  1904  he  was 
U.  S.  Consul  at  Milan,  Italy,  and  on  the  expiration  of 
his  term  of  office  he  returned  to  his  home  at  Clare- 
mont,  N.  H.,  and  retired  from  active  pursuit  of  his 
profession  as  a  dentist. 

He  was  beloved  at  home  for  his  genial  ways,  busi- 
ness principles  and  the  good  word  he  had  for  every 
one.  He  kept  up  an  active  interest  in  the  lines  of 
sportmanship  in  which  he  had  always  had  an  ardent 
interest,  and  we  know  him  when  in  college  as  a 
crack  wing  shot.  He  was  a  great  collector  of  rare 
antiques. 

In  the  Sportsmen's  Review  giving  an  account  of 
his  death,  I  find  his  picture,  showing  the  same  fine 
face,  dark  hair  and  long  curled-up  mustache,  bright 
eyes,  alert  and  erect,  fastidious  dress  and  promise  of 
long  years.  He  was  credited  in  that  article  with 
being  a  great  lover  of  the  pointer  and  setter  breeds 
of  dogs,  as  he  had  been  since  1868,  and  with  his 
many  bright  and  genial  qualities  of  mind  and  heart. 

He  was  survived  by  his  wife. 


62  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


CHARLES  ADAMS  JEWELL 
22  Wyoming  St.,  Grove  Hall  Station,  Boston,  Mass. 

Serving  as  Assistant  Deputy  Naval  Officer  in  Bos- 
ton from  1886  to  June  1890,  he  then  made  a  change 
and  opened  a  law  office  in  Boston  where  he  has  con- 
tinued to  practice  his  profession  ever  since  with  the 
respect  of  the  bar  and  the  confidence  of  a  good 
clientage.  His  general  health  is  quite  good,  but  for 
a  few  years  his  hearing  has  become  somewhat  de- 
fective, and  in  1916  he  retired  from  general  prac- 
tice, though  continuing  some  Probate  Court  practice 
and  the  care  and  trusteeship  of  some  estates. 

His  son  and  only  child,  George  C.  Jewell,  born  in 
1881,  graduated  from  the  Boston  Mechanic  Arts 
High  School  in  1900,  and  then  took  up  the  business 
of  Mechanical  Draughtsman  in  which  business  he 
has  ever  since  been  engaged  in  Boston.  He  mar- 
ried Theresa  A.  Smith  of  Boston,  June  21,  1905,  and 
later  built  a  house  and  established  his  home  at  Mel- 
rose Highlands,  Mass.,  where  they  continue  to  re- 
side.    They  have  no  children. 

Our  classmate's  home  where  he  has  resided  since 
1890  is  in  the  Elm  Hill  District  of  Boston  Highland. 
His  memories  of  Dartmouth  and  the  class  of  '72  are 
sweet,  and  though  he  is  the  oldest  living  member  of 
the  class,  he  is  not  expecting  to  miss  greeting  with 
old-time  fervor  those  of  us  whom  a  kind  Providence 
shall  assemble  at  Hanover  in  1922. 


CLARENCE  JOHNSON 
Born  1851-12-4;  died  1916-3-8 

We  can  add  nothing  to  what  was  reported  in 
1904,  except  that  he  continued  along  the  same  lines 
of  work  as  then  pursued. 


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STEPHEN  ALFRED  JONES 
Born  1848-3-21;  died  1915-12-10 

He  died  quite  suddenly  of  acute  angina  pectoris 
at  San  Jose,  Cal.,  with  no  previous  ill  health  warn- 
ing him  of  this  trouble.  He  left  a  wife  and  two 
sons.  He  pursued  the  same  lines  of  educational 
work  well  set  forth  in  our  class  History  of  1904. 
His  service  to  education  was  of  a  high  order,  and  he 
honored  his  college  and  our  class  as  few  of  the  col- 
lege have  done  along  his  lines. 

His  son,  Herbert,  was  educated  at  Stanford  Uni- 
versity, and  is  an  attorney  at  San  Jose,  with  a  large 
clientage,  and  for  three  successive  terms  has  been 
chosen  State  Senator.  He  has  one  child,  Barbara, 
born  Dec.  17,  1919.  The  other  son,  Augustine,  a 
Congregational  minister  at  San  Jose,  was  also  edu- 
cated at  Stanford,  took  a  course  at  Chicago  Theol- 
ogical Seminary,  spent  a  year  in  study  at  Edin- 
borough  and  London,  traveled  widely  in  Europe  and 
Asia,  and  besides  his  work  as  a  minister  is  in  good 
demand  as  a  lecturer  on  his  travels. 

I  have  a  picture  of  our  classmate  which  appeared 
in  print  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  it  would  be 
recognized  at  once  by  any  of  the  class.  There  is 
the  same  alert,  penetrating  look,  the  full  mustache, 
with  added  whiskers,  and  no  perceptible  change  in 
the  color  of  his  hair.  He  was  as  erect  and  appar- 
ently stalwart  as  ever.  I  could  but  realize  that 
"Death  loves  a  shining  mark." 

He  was  given  the  degree  of  A.  M.  and  Ph.  D.  pro 
meritus  by  Dartmouth. 


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ADSON  DEAN  KEYES 
Born  1842-10-22;  died  1904-2-21 

His  death  in  1904  suggests  why  we  have  nothing 
to  report  save  what  had  been  very  fully  recorded  in 
our  History.     His  death  was  then  mentioned. 


ANSON  L.  KEYES 
Born  1843-2-6;  died  1919-5-6 

He  had  lived  at  Faribault,  Minn,  for  nearly  forty- 
one  years,  and  continued  to  practice  law  there  to  the 
end  of  his  life. 

I  quote  from  one  who  knew  him  most  intimately 
and  long,  "Few  men  drop  out  from  any  community 
leaving  a  more  marked  vacancy  than  does  Mr. 
Keyes.  Modest  and  retiring,  it  was  only  those  who 
knew  him  most  intimately  that  fully  appreciated  his 
worth." 

He  was  President  of  the  Rice  County  Bar  Asso- 
ciation at  the  time  of  his  death.  A  wife  and  mar- 
ried daughter,  Mrs.  Edgar  F.  Strong,  survived  him. 
Mr.  Strong  is  a  teacher  by  profession,  and  is  now 
Superintendent  of  Schools  in  Oconomowoc,  Wis. 
Mrs.  Keyes  is  in  good  health. 


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ALBERT  EMERSON  LAKE 

Murdock,  Neb. 

In  1904,  Albert  was  cultivating  one  of  the  finest 
and  best  improved  farms  in  Cass  County,  Nebraska. 
A  letter  from  him  in  August  1920  shows  his  pleasant 
memories  of  the  fellows  of  '72.  "Not  being  strong 
on  the  Ego/'  he  says,  he  was  reluctant  to  put  into 
words  the  results  attained  in  his  activities.  From 
his  standpoint,  he  would  label  his  achievements  fail- 
ures rather  than  successes,  but  from  information 
filtering  through  Solon  Towne,  I  am  satisfied  that 
Albert's  ideals  and  modesty  have  much  to  do  with 
his  standpoint. 

In  1918  I  learned  that  he  had  four  fine  farms  of  a 
thousand  acres,  and  presumably  had  been  obliged, 
of  course  much  against  his  inclination,  to  "lay  by 
him  in  store"  enough  to  occupy  considerable  of  his 
time  on  income  tax  returns.  He  actually  attributes 
his  financial  progress  to  "pure  luck  and  dense  stu- 
pidity." Like  Gen.  Grant's  brand  of  whiskey,  once 
suggested  by  Lincoln,  if  the  old  story  is  true,  as  the 
proper  brand  for  the  Potomac  Generals,  we  think 
Albert  ought  to  bottle  up  and  send  to  each  one  of 
his  class  some  of  that  brand  of  "pure  luck  and  dense 
stupidity." 

Oh!  Albert,  your  productive  activity  along  most 
commendable  lines  is  worthy  of  the  best  records  of 
your  class,  and  though  falling  short  of  your  object- 
ive, as  you  write,  it  is  within  the  objective  of  wise 
and  diligent  farmers.  We  are  happy  in  your  ex- 
pressed contentment,  and  that  it  is  far  better  than 
a  million  acres,  which  naturally  would  be  an  insup- 


66  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

erable  obstacle  to  that  fine  feeling.  I  venture  to  as- 
sert that  your  well  known  ethical  ideals  have  kept 
your  thrift  within  the  bounds  of  true  happiness,  and 
as  Frost  was  told  by  Solon  Towne  your  life  in  1904 
was  mainly  devoted  to  the  proper  development  of 
your  children,  so  it  has  been  ever  since  then. 
It  is  one  of  the  blessed  handicaps,  call  it  that  if  you 
please,  of  a  college  training,  that  such  training  es- 
tablishes in  men  scales  of  value  in  life  that  approach 
nearer  to  the  true  than  that  of  men  trained  narrowly 
in  measures  of  the  market. 

Lake's  children  are  all  married.  Gertrude  mar- 
ried a  minister,  and  they  live  at  Lincoln,  Neb. 
Guy,  Grace  and  Fred  are  all  on  farms  and  doing 
well.  Albert  is  in  good  physical  condition  in  the 
upper  story,  but  thinks  he  would  not  mark  over 
fifty  per  cent  in  the  lower.  I  am  sure  he  does  not 
need  to  follow  the  plow  in  his  kind  of  farming,  and 
be  affected  by  emotional  storms  caused  by  recalci- 
trant mules.  He  suggests  that  he  would  be  most 
happy  to  shake  our  hands,  and  that  hints  to  me  that 
he  will  not  fail  to  give  himself  the  opportunity  in 
1922.  We  surely  would  enjoy  once  again  the  conta- 
gion of  his  inspiring  laughter. 


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NATHANIEL  WILLIAM  LEONARD 
Fayette,  Mo. 

In  1904,  he  had  been  engaged  in  breeding  pure- 
blooded  Hereford  cattle  since  1885,  when  he  had 
quit  mercantile  and  banking  pursuits.  He  is  a 
farmer.  His  wife  is  all  that  could  be  desired,  un- 
mistakably a  very  well  mated  and  happy  couple. 
His  health  is  fine,  some  gray  hairs,  but  not  bald;  he 
has  a  cheerful  burden  of  property,  securing  him 
from  worry  as  to  the  years  to  follow,  and  is  only  six- 
ty years  "young,"  notwithstanding  our  record  cred- 
its him  with  nine  years  more. 

Living  the  past  nineteen  years  on  his  ancestral  es- 
tate in  a  very  spacious  home  built  in  1835,  his  mind 
fed  by  plenty  of  well  chosen  books,  cheered  by 
musical  instruments  galore,  herds  of  live  stock  with- 
in his  broad  acres,  and  with  a  hobby  of  many  col- 
onies of  bees  storing  honey,  why  wonder  that  the 
nine  surplus  years  made  no  appreciable  impression. 
His  farming  is  by  proxy  through  his  partner. 

A  New  York  lawyer,  brother-in-law,  visits  him, 
and  pronounces  Nat's  life  "idyllic."  Nat  wonders 
at  times  how  his  four  years  at  Hanover  counts,  skep- 
tical as  to  its  economic  usefulness.  Such  "idyllic" 
life  carries  us  back  to  Horace's  Ode  to  Maecenas, 
the  charm  of  life  on  the  Sabine  Farm.  He  hopes  to 
meet  us  "before  he  dies,"  and  that  means  a  longing 
look  towards  our  reunion  in  1922,  when  he  can  talk 
about  the  honey-bee,  the  sweets  of  Hymettus  and 
the  pure-blooded  Herefords. 


68  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


WILLIAM  HENRY  LEONARD 
Marshall,  Mo. 

He  was  engaged  in  the  agricultural  implement 
business  at  Miami,  I.  T.  in  1904.  He  was  born  on  a 
farm  and  is  an  exception  among  college-bred  men, 
in  that  he  has  never  turned  his  back  on  that  import- 
ant industry,  thank  the  Lord.  He  was  successful  in 
his  business  at  Miami,  but  sold  out  there  and  went 
back  to  Missouri  to  get  the  benefit  of  better  school 
advantages  for  his  son,  and  to  recover  from  the  in- 
jurious effects  of  drinking  Oklahoma  water.  On 
account  of  the  severity  of  the  winters  in  Missouri, 
his  son  became  affected  with  bronchial  troubles,  and 
so  the  family  "pulled  up  stakes"  and  went  to  Alamo 
Gordo,  N.  M.,  where  he  bought  a  ranch  of  160  acres 
and  remained  there  in  a  delightful  climate  three 
years,  and  where  the  son  found  a  good  school,  to 
which  he  rode  six  miles,  and  by  riding,  hunting  al- 
most all  kinds  of  wild  game  from  mountain  lions  to 
turkeys,  made  himself  over  into  a  robust  boy. 

In  order  to  complete  the  education  of  the  son, 
they  came  to  Kansas  City  in  1912,  but  the  climate 
again  affected  the  son,  so  mother  and  son  went  to 
El  Paso,  Texas,  for  two  months,  after  which  at  the 
age  of  18  the  son  went  to  California  and  hustled  for 
himself  and  "made  good." 

William  lived  to  see  some  of  the  Populistic  ideas, 
which  he  advocated  with  zeal,  taken  up  by  both  of 
the  greater  parties  and  nourished  as  their  own  off- 
spring, so  he  says.  He  has  been  a  strong  advocate 
of  the  League  of  Nations,  and  is  not  happy  at  the 
result  of  the  November  election.     His  heart  is  warm 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  69 

with  recollections  of  the  boys  of  '72  and  he  fondly 
hopes  that  his  life  and  health  will  be  spared  to  meet 
those  that  are  alive  and  present  at  the  reunion  in 
1922,  though  he  is  sad  when  he  thinks  of  the  miss- 
ing. 

His  wife  is  a  graduate  of  one  of  the  best  western 
colleges. 

"Not  depending  for  happiness  on  the  accumul- 
ation of  property,  we  try  to  throw  a  little  sunshine 
into  the  lives  of  others  as  we  go  along,  and  in  this  we 
find  contentment,,,  are  his  wise  and  beautiful  words. 
Are  there  any  more  illuminating  words  as  to  the 
quality  of  his  soul  than  those?  I  cannot  add  any, 
and  we  want  once  more  to  shake  hands  with  men 
of  his  stripe. 


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HENRY  EUCLID  LEWIS 
67  Dana  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Although  educated  to  practice  law,  and  following 
that  profession  for  a  number  of  years,  his  life  since 
1881  has  been  mainly  devoted  to  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness and  its  adjuncts,  as  will  be  seen  by  referring  to 
our  class  history.  In  1904  he  was  rounding  out  his 
23rd  year  in  Lincoln,  Neb.,  having  been  connected 
with  various  banking  institutions  besides  his  other 
business.  There  he  remained  until  1908.  He  had 
organized  a  company  in  Nebraska,  taking  over  some 
1,400  acres  of  Platte  Valley  land  for  a  ranch,  seeded 
with  alfalfa,  for  raising  hogs  and  other  live-stock, 
and  he  gave  his  attention  to  running  it.  The  panic 
of  1907  was  especially  disastrous  to  that  business, 
consequently  it  was  deemed  best  to  liquidate  it. 
After  that  was  completed,  he  came  East  to  engage 
in  the  sale  of  Western  bonds  and  securities,  but 
found  that  the  East  had  taken  a  turn  against  such 
far-off  investments;  therefore  he  took  hold  of  the 
real  estate  business  in  Stoneham,  Mass.,  until  1919 
in  the  fall,  when  he  concluded  to  retire  and  locate  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  he  now  resides. 

He  is  in  good  health,  and  so  is  his  wife.  They 
have  one  son  and  two  daughters.  The  son,  Harold 
G.,  has  been  connected  with  the  Westinghouse  Co. 
for  about  fifteen  years  and  manages  the  Boston  of- 
fice, having  been  educated  latterly  in  Electrical  En- 
gineering at  Columbia  University.  The  oldest 
daughter,  Edith  L.,  Smith  College,  1902,  has  given 
attention  to  literary  work,  living  in  New  York  city, 
and  for  several  years  was  on  the  editorial  staff  of 


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McClure's  Monthly,  though  not  at  the  present  time. 
She  has  recently  returned  from  a  European  trip. 

The  two  younger  daughters,  Ruth  P.  and  Helen 
H.,  attended  the  Sargent  School  for  Physical  Train- 
ing at  Cambridge,  and  Ruth  is  teaching  in  the  Phys- 
ical Training  Dept.  of  the  Brooklyn  Heights  Acad- 
emy, New  York.  Helen  was  married  to  H.  P.  Mor- 
gan in  June,  1920,  and  they  live  in  New  York. 

Our  classmate  has  always  had  a  lively  interest  in 
Dartmouth,  and  in  1900  was  President  of  the  Alum- 
ni Association  of  the  Plains.  He  will  resort  to  no 
big  telescope  to  sweep  the  sky  to  locate  Polaris  in 
1922,  for  he  can  steer  with  his  eyes  shut  by  the  mag- 
net of  memories  dear,  his  family  having  lived  in  daily 
sight  of  Ascutney,  and  every  boy  reared  near  that 
peak  had  to  climb  it  very  early  in  life  to  get  the  dir- 
ection of  Hanover  well  in  mind. 


72  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


EDWARD  DORAN  MASON 
33  Chatham  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

We  find  that  he  has  been,  since  1904,  giving  his 
whole  time  to  a  Mission  Work  in  Boston  under  the 
auspices  of  the  American  Sunday  School  Union, 
New  England  office  at  No.  8  Beacon  St.,  Boston. 

His  daughter  married  Alton  L.  Miller,  Dec.  23, 
1911.  Her  husband  is  a  graduate  of  Harvard, 
1911,  ,  and  has  been  an  instructor  in  Mathematics 
at  Harvard  and  Michigan  University  for  periods 
covering  six  years.  Harvard  in  1916  gave  him  the 
degree  Ph.  D.  In  1918  he  concluded  to  discontinue 
teaching  and  go  into  business  with  his  father  in  Bos- 
ton, manufacturing  confectionery. 

"Ed"  has  two  granddaughters,  Ruth  Pearl,  born 
Dec.  17,  1917,  and  Mary  G.,  born  Aug.  17,  1919,  and 
is  thoroughly  obsessed  with  them.  He  is  as  busy  in 
determining  whether  either  looks  like  him  as  when 
he  worked  down  into  the  hard-pan  of  Greek  and 
Latin  roots.  Of  course,  he  will  be  shrinkingly  care- 
ful in  wishing  any  of  his  features  on  either  of  them, 
until  he  reads  what  your  Secretary  reports  as  to  his 
retained  beauty.  Without  any  subtle  ambiguity,  I 
will  aver  that  I  have  gazed  enjoyably  on  his  face 
twice  within  two  years,  and,  though  he  seemed  quite 
precipitous  in  breaking  away  from  my  Ancient- 
Mariner  scrutiny,  he  looks  just  as  well  as  he  used  to. 

He  writes,  that  in  order  to  retain  his  chief  virtue, 
a  good  appetite,  he  is  observing  good  habits.  We 
know  his  difficulties,  and  will  exercise  charity  as  we 
crave  the  same,  knowing  that  the  habits  he  observes 
are  not  any  too  marked  in  others. 


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GEORGE  ALFRED  MERRILL 
183  Fisher  Avenue,  Detroit,  Mich. 

When  our  first  class  report  came  out  in  1878,  the 
"Elder"  was  in  a  large  lumber  business  at  Falls  City, 
Neb.,  and  a  short  time  before  1904,  he  was  in  the  of- 
fice of  the  Inter-Ocean  at  Chicago.  Truly,  he  does 
have  an  almost  perennial  longing  for  new  territory, 
like  Sawyer  of  our  class  who  in  1904  had  camped- 
out  in  fifteen  states  and  territories  and  several  more 
not  listed.  One  would  almost  suspect  them  to  be  of 
the  itching  ambition  of  the  Kaiser.  But  the  "Elder" 
confesses  to  this  wander-lust  so  frankly  that  the 
staid  moss-backs,  easily  satisfied  with  the  nearer 
heath,  will  overlook  this  marked  peculiarity,  if  he 
will  show  a  penitent  disposition  in  1922,  leave  Seat- 
tle alone  and  the  "sequoia  gigantea"  of  that  coast  for 
a  brief  season,  bring  the  points  of  his  calipers  a  little 
closer  so  as  to  take  the  measure  of  little  trees  with 
inspiring  associations,  and  at  Hanover  allow  the 
Old-Pine  memories  to  whisper  quieting  thoughts  to 
his  restless  soul. 

He  was  in  Florida  in  1904,  five  years  later  in  Seat- 
tle, thence  to  Chicago,  and  thence  back  to  Seattle. 
He  has  been  in  the  employ  of  the  government, 
ranched  a  little,  and  at  times  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business  extensively.  He  holds  up  the  fingers  of 
both  hands  and  counts  off  Florida,  New  Hampshire, 
Washington,  Illinois,  Iowa,  Kansas,  Nebraska  and 
Colorado  as  a  few  of  the  tributaries  to  his  stream  of 
varied  experiences,  but  modestly  disclaims  the 
thought  that  to  a  heavy  extent  moss  has  clogged  his 
revolutions.     As  long  as  the  Income  Tax  exists  we 


74  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

do  not  look  for  much  information  as  to  the  ingather- 
ed-moss  of  our  classmates. 

He  had  his  measure  of  sorrow  in  the  loss  of  two 
children,  but  has  three  alive,  Arthur  C,  Grace  E., 
and  Harry  W.  Arthur  lives  at  Tacoma,  Wash.,  and 
is  Office  Manager  of  the  Tacoma  Grocery  Co.  He 
married  Emma  Blodgett  and  is  a  veteran  of  three 
wars,  the  Cuban,  Phillipine,  and  the  World  War. 
In  the  last  he  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  63rd  Coast 
Artillery  and  saw  active  service  in  France. 

The  daughter,  Grace,  married  Daniel  L.  Hood, 
who  has  been  Manager  of  the  Parks,  Davis  Co.  of 
Detroit  for  many  years. 

Harry  W.,  second  son,  graduate  of  Tilton  Semi- 
nary, N.  H.,  is  an  Electrician  and  employed  by  the 
City  of  Seattle.      He  married  Lena  Moore. 

The  health  of  our  classmate  is  superb,  and  he  is 
highly  privileged  in  being  able  to  trot  three  grand- 
children on  his  knees  when  he  is  not  striding  from 
Detroit  to  Seattle  or  Tacoma.  His  letter  expresses 
most  pleasant  memories  of  all  the  "boys,"  and  he 
has  no  fault  to  find  in  being  saluted  in  the  good  old 
familiar  way  as  "Elder."  His  hand  writing  is  a  key 
to  his  nerves,  and  indicates  fine  presevation  and  the 
great  kindness  of  the  years. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  75 


CHARLES  RANSOM  MILLER 

The  Times  Building,  New  York  City 

The  coincidence  of  the  birth  of  three  great  Amer- 
ican journalists  and  editorial  writers,  Greeley, 
Dana  and  Miller,  in  the  little  state  of  New  Hamp- 
shire seems  very  remarkable.  If  it  were  in  good 
taste  to  undertake  to  compare  and  estimate  the  re- 
spective influences  of  these  men  in  moulding  public 
sentiment  on  great  national  questions  in  great  emer- 
gencies, we  are  poorly  equipped  to  make  any  such 
attempt.  Classmate  Dana  furnished  in  1904  the 
article  which  relates  to  Miller  in  our  report  that 
year,  and  it  is  so  able,  comprehensive  and  critically 
just  that  nothing  need  be  added  to  it.  Dr.  Dana 
was  thoroughly  familiar  with  current  opinions  in 
New  York  and  the  country  about  the  quality  and 
strength  of  the  work  of  the  editor  concerning  whom 
we  all  delight  to  learn. 

Dartmouth  recognized  Miller's  eminence  as  a 
journalist  in  1905  in  conferring  the  degree  of  L.  LD., 
and  Columbia  in  1915  in  conferring  the  degree  of 
Litt.  D.  In  1918  he  was  made  a  Chevalier  of  the 
Legion  of  Honor  (France),  in  1919,  Chevalier  of  the 
Order  of  Leopold  of  Belgium,  and  in  1919  a  Com- 
mander of  the  Royal  Order  of  George  the  First  of 
Greece.  These  decorations  came  in  recognition  of 
services  done  to  the  cause  of  the  Allies  by  the  pen, 
not  on  the  tented  field.  If  one  happens  to  have  a 
copy  of  an  article  in  The  Times  of  Dec.  15,  1914,  he 
will  have  a  clue  to  the  many  editorials  of  Miller  dur- 
ing war-time  which  account  for  these  decorations, 
articles  similar  in  tone  and  spirit  to  the  one  cited. 


76  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

This  article  was  then,  and  since  has  been  the  cause 
of  a  good  deal  of  talk  in  the  world.  It  was  cabled 
to  London  entire  and  by  various  governments  cabled 
to  many  capitals,  appearing  in  newspapers  all  over 
the  world.  It  has  been  said  that  no  editorial  article 
in  any  newspaper  ever  reached  so  wide  an  audience. 
That  it  was  prophetic  is  now  self-evident.  It  was 
an  interpretation  of  the  hand-writing  on  the  Kai- 
ser's wall  of  bayonets,  like  that  of  Daniel  to  Bel- 
shazza,  "God  hath  numbered  thy  kingdom  and  fin- 
ished it."  I  cannot  refrain  from  a  limited  quota- 
tion, reading  as  from  a  seer: 

"For  the  German  People,  Peace  with  Freedom." 
"Germany  is  doomed  to  sure  defeat.  Bankrupt 
in  statesmanship,  overmatched  in  arms,  under  the 
moral  condemnation  of  the  civilized  world,  be- 
friended only  by  the  Austrians  and  Turks,  two  back- 
ward-looking and  dying  nations,  desperately  bat- 
tling against  the  hosts  of  three  great  Powers  to 
which  help  and  reinforcement  from  States  now  neu- 
tral will  certainly  come  should  the  decision  be  long 
deferred,  she  pours  out  the  blood  of  her  heroic  sub- 
jects and  wastes  her  diminishing  substance  in  a 
hopeless  struggle  that  postpones  but  cannot   alter 

the  fatal  decree." "With  her  dominating  all 

Europe,  peace  and  security  would  vanish  from  the 
earth.  A  few  months  ago  the  world  only  dimly 
comprehended  Germany,  now  it  knows  her  tho- 
roughly."   "For  their  own   peace   and   safety 

the  nations  must  demolish  that  towering  structure 
of  militarism  in  the  center  of  Europe  that  has  be- 
come the  world's  danger-spot,  its  greatest  menace." 
The  article  goes  on  to  try  and  convince  the  Germans 
that  they  were  fated  to  lose  and  to  become  wrecked 
for  the  future,  and  it  abounded  in  warnings  to  the 
Germans  in  this  country,  and  in  Miller's  letter  to  me 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  77 

he  remarks,  "Unfortunately  the  Germans  did  not 
take  my  advice." 

I  have  an  account  of  a  celebration,  July  7,  1915, 
of  his  two-score  years  connection  with  The  Times, 
at  a  luncheon  given  by  the  staff  of  editors.  It  can 
be  seen  what  a  large  affair  the  Editor  in  Chief,  Mill- 
er, presided  over,  there  being  108  of  the  editorial 
staff  present  on  that  occasion.  And  they  represent- 
ed only  one  tenth  of  those  engaged  in  a  great  many 
ways  in  getting  out  daily  an  edition  of  about  325,- 
000  copies. 

Mr.  Ochs,  publisher  and  President  of  the  Com- 
pany, estimated  Millers  written  product  at  1,000 
Vols,  of  10,000  words  each.  Pretty  serious  brain 
work,  considering  its  quality  and  vigor!  I  quote 
from  Mr.  Ochs'  remarks  on  that  occasion: 

"What  he  (Miller)  has  written  has  stamped  our 
work  with  character  and  permitted  us  to  exercise 
power  and  influence  among  intelligent,  thoughtful 
people  throughout  the  world;  distinguished  our 
opinions  as  of  the  highest  order  of  honesty,  sound 
reasoning,  of  the  best  literary  style  and  of  the  lofti- 
est patriotism.  And  never  was  his  work  better, 
more  virile,  or  more  noteworthy  than  to-day,  when 
he  is  generally  accorded  the  most  eminent,  most 
powerful,  and  most  respected  editorial  writer  in  the 
United  States." "Mr.  Miller's  kind  and  gener- 
ous nature,  his  broad  sympathies  and  lofty  ideals, 
his  scholarly  attainments,  facile  pen,  and  withal  his 
courtly  graces  have  been  a  joy  and  an  inspiration." 
Mr.  Van  Anda,  of  the  editorial  staff,  following 
amusing  allusions  by  him  to  our  classmate's  versatil- 
ity in  humble  lines  other  than  editorial,  said:  "We 
had  him  as  the  valiant  champion  of  all  worthy  caus- 
es and  as  the  uncompromising  foe  of  all  unworthy, 
and  we  congratulate  him  that  he  has  lived  to  see 


78  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

many  of  the  worthy  causes  triumph,  if  not  all  the 

unworthy  defeated." "We  rejoice  that  these 

troubled  times,  supremely  testing  those  who  follow 
his  profession,  have  found  him  at  the  meridian  of  his 
powers,  meeting  great  occasions  with  might,  even 
with  majesty." 

Mr.  Edward  Cary,  longer  connected  with  the  edit- 
orial work  on  The  Times  than  Miller,  from  his  bed 
of  illness  sent  these  words:  "Mr.  Miller  could  easily 
have  won  distinction  in  the  law,  while  in  the  higher 
walks  of  diplomacy  his  keen  intellect,  his  firm  grasp 
of  essentials  in  discussing  complex  matters,  his  skill 
in  dialectics,  his  faculty  for  mastering  his  subject 
would  have  given  him  high  rank." 'Tor  two- 
score  years  he  has  instructed,  guided,  inspired,  ad- 
monished, and,  when  occasion  required,  chastised 
this  community,  and  with  every  passing  year,  as  they 
have  known  him  better,  their  faith  and  pride  in  him 
have  grown." 

Miller's  remarks  in  accepting  a  fine  memento, 
presented  by  the  staff,  show  how  agreeable  to  him 
had  been  his  task  through  so  many  years:  "In  the 
daily  tasks  of  a  newspaper  man  there  is  no  monot- 
ony. He  deals  always  with  subjects  that  are  either 
fresh  in  themselves  or  present  aspects  that  are  every 
day  new  and  interesting.  In  particular  the  work  of 
an  editorial  writer  is  of  such  nature  that  he  finds  in 
it  a  sustaining  sense  of  interest,  because  he  has  to 
deal  so  largely  with  public  affairs,  with  the  life  and 
activities  of  the  community,  the  State  and  the 
Nation." 

In  an  article  on  British  and  American  Newspapers 
in  the  November,  1919,  Atlantic,  written  by  the  War 
correspondent  of  The  Times,  Chas.  H.  Grasty, 
speaking  of  the  two  editors,  Mr.  Ochs  and  Mr.  Mill- 
er, he  gave  his  opinion  of  Mr.  Miller  in  these  words : 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  79 

"Mr.  Miller  is  a  man  of  great  learning,  he  is  a  true 
scholar  and  philosopher,  as  well  as  a  man  who 
knows  the  world  on  the  practical  side.  If  he  had 
chosen,  he  could  have  ministered  to  the  intellectual 
elite,  but  this  would  have  vastly  limited  the  useful- 
ness and  developement  of  the  paper." 

From  Miller's  letter  to  me  I  quote  something  per- 
sonal :  "At  seventy-two  I  am  still  at  work  as  hard  as 
ever  and  find  undiminished  enjoyment  in  what  I 
do."  He  is  one  of  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  Pulitzer 
School  of  Journalism  at  Columbia,  Vice  Pres.  and 
Director  the  New  York  Times  Co.,  also  Vice  Pres. 
and  Director  of  the  Tide  Water  Paper  Co.,  which 
they  own,  and  a  second  largest  stockholder  in  The 
Times.  He  takes  some  interest  in  foreign  lan- 
guages, reads  with  pleasure  the  works  of  authors  in 
German,  Italian,  Russian  and  French,  speaking  the 
latter  language,  German  not  so  well,  and  makes 
some  conversational  use  of  Russian  without  impair- 
ment of  his  vocal  organs. 

I  realize  that  I  may  "jar"  his  modesty  in  using 
freely  all  the  reliable  information  I  have  been  for- 
tunate in  getting,  but  he  should  discipline  those  who 
talk  about  him  and  check  publicity  of  facts  and 
opinions  before  they  become  common  property. 

For  some  fifteen  years  he  has  celebrated  his 
birthday,  January  17,  by  a  dinner  with  his  old 
friends  at  the  Metropolitan  Club,  a  distinguished 
company  of  males  and  females  making  merry  with 
speeches  and  felicitations.  This  year  there  were 
twenty-five  guests  and  Dr.  Dana  enlivened  the  oc- 
casion with  a  lot  of  stories  told  in  his  sui  generis 
way. 

Mrs.  Miller  passed  away  in  December,  1906. 
Miss  Madge  D.,  the  daughter,  and  Hoyt,  the  son, 
keep  up  the  home  with  the  father  at  635  Park  Ave- 


80  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

nue.  The  son,  Harvard  1904,  has  devoted  himself 
to  chemistry,  notably  to  research  work  in  chemistry 
of  color.  Four  years  ago  he  took  out  some  very 
comprehensive  patents  covering  a  process  of  color- 
photography  which  makes  possible  the  photograph- 
ing of  objects  in  their  natural  colors.  This  process 
has  been  used  to  some  extent  in  films  for  moving 
pictures,  and  is  undergoing  further  developement. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  81 


JOHN  BAILEY  MILLS 
Narberth,  Pa. 

It  was  a  sweet  morsel  for  "Bailey"  when  he  met 
several  of  the  class  in  the  early  morning  of  October 
20,  1919,  and  congratulated  them  on  being  two  days 
later  than  himself  to  attend  the  Sesqui-Centennial, 
but  we  knew  he  had  the  extra  driving  motive  of  at- 
tending the  50th  anniversary  of  the  Greek  letter  so- 
ciety of  which  he  was  a  charter  member.  On  the 
Saturday  before,  he  found  that  our  class  was  the 
oldest  one  represented  in  the  Grand  Parade,  and  he 
alone  of  '72  fell  into  line  behind  the  Chief  Marshal 
and  led  the  alumni.  "Bailey"  was  the  only  one  of 
eleven  living  charter  members  of  his  Greek  letter 
society  who  was  present.  It  "did  him  proud."  His 
loyalty  easily  brought  him  from  Grand  Rapids,  illus- 
trating the  warm  hearted  and  steadfast  fellow  that 
he  is. 

He  was  Managing  Editor  on  the  Daily  Herald  of 
his  city  nine  years,  and  editorial  writer  three  years, 
and,  as  he  remarks  to  me,  in  twenty-eight  years  of 
service  on  that  paper,  he  progressed  from  "Dog 
Watch"  to  the  latter  duties.  In  August  1920,  he 
was  obliged  to  give  up  his  work  and  devote  attention 
to  weakness  of  his  heart  which  then  gave  him  ser- 
ious concern.  Owing  to  this  condition  he  resigned 
his  work  on  The  Herald,  Jan.l,  1921,  and,  instead 
of  accepting  his  resignation,  he  was  put  on  the  re- 
tired list  with  a  liberal  pension  for  life.  He  has 
been  resting  at  his  daughter's  home  at  Narberth,  Pa. 
since  some  time  in  the  early  fall,  and  wrote  me  on 
Jan.  21,  that  he  was  under  the  doctor's  care  and 


82  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

would  be  for  some  time,  but  was  told  by  him  that 
he  was  going  to  allow  John  to  travel  pretty  soon. 

This  is  the  pithy  sermon  that  he  quietly  preached 
after  he  laid  his  pen  down:  "I  have  never  made 
much  stir  in  the  world.  I  have  lived  a  quiet  sort  of 
life,  but  I  have  taken  every  assignment  given  me, 
covered  it  to  the  best  of  my  ability,  and  turned  the 
copy  in  on  time." 

A  grandson  was  born  to  John,  Oct.  20,  1919,  and 
those  of  us  who  were  at  the  1912  reunion  will  recall 
the  mother,  whom  we  at  once  voted  to  call  the 
"Daughter  of  the  Class,"  because  she  honored  and 
delighted  us  by  sitting-in  with  us  in  a  picture,  and 
by  her  beauty  rescued  us  from  critical  observation 
of  our  changes  in  beauty.  She  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Michigan  in  the  Literary  Department 
in  1914,  at  the  age  of  19,  and  had  the  double  com- 
pliment of  being  the  youngest  girl  graduate  up  to 
that  time,  and  the  vote  of  her  class  that  she  was  the 
handsomest  of  the  class. 

John  is  writing  up  the  earlier  history  of  his  native 
town,  not  covered  by  a  former  history.  He  express- 
es fond  hopes  of  being  with  the  class  at  its  reunion 
in  1922,  and  if  he  comes  with  the  exuberant  spirit 
which  he  manifested  at  the  Sesqui-Centennial,  no- 
thing will  be  quite  so  inspiring. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  83 


ALVA  HERMAN  MORRILL 

Newton,  N.  H. 

Our  class  History,  so  far  as  it  concerned  the  life 
of  Brother  Morrill,  ended  with  1902  when  he  was 
Field  Secretary  of  the  New  York  Eastern  Christian 
Conference,  his  residence,  Albany,  N.  Y.  After  a 
year  of  this  service  he  accepted  a  similar  position 
under  the  auspices  of  the  New  England  Christian 
Convention,  and  served  in  that  capacity  nearly  two 
years,  when  he  resigned  and  accepted  a  call  to  the 
Christian  Church  at  Laconia,  N.  H.,  in  which  posi- 
tion he  continued  six  years,  resigning  to  accept  the 
call  of  the  Christian  Church  at  Franklin,  N.  H. 
where  he  served  four  years  and  then  accepted  a  call 
to  the  Christian  Church  at  Woodstock,  Vt. 

While  pastor  at  Laconia  he  was  elected  President 
of  the  New  Hampshire  Sunday  School  Association, 
and  again  was  elected  to  that  position  while  pastor 
at  Franklin.  During  the  last  seven  months  of  his 
four-year  pastorate  at  Woodstock  he  was  invited  to 
preach  for  the  Congregational  Church  there,  their 
pastor  having  been  appointed  a  Chaplain  in  the  U. 
S.  Army,  and  he  thus  served  the  two  congregations 
in  united  services.  He  terminated  his  pastorate  at 
Woodstock  by  resignation,  April  30,  1919,  and  im- 
mediately accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the 
Newton,  N.  H.,  Christian  Church,  entering  upon  his 
service  there  in  May  of  that  year. 

While  pastor  at  Laconia  he  was  chosen  President 
of  the  Christian  Camp  Meeting  Association  which 
hold  annual  summer  meetings  at  Craigsville,  Barn- 
stable, Mass.,  on  the  south  shore  of  Cape  Cod,  and 
he  has  held  that  position  ever  since.       While  in 


84  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

Franklin  he  enjoyed  the  privilege  of  performing  the 
marriage  ceremony  uniting  his  youngest  daughter, 
Pamelia,  with  Mr.  DeWitt  C.  Allen,  a  school  super- 
visor of  Connecticut. 

Dr.  Morrill  is  now  President  of  the  Missionary 
and  Education  Societies  of  his  denomination  in  New 
England,  and  of  the  New  England  Convention.  Al- 
though the  eighteen  years  which  have  passed  since 
1902  have  witnessed  no  remarkable  experiences  in 
his  ministerial  and  other  work,  they  have  been  at- 
tended with  the  usual  results  of  continuous  and 
faithful  labor,  "giving  abundant  reason,"  as  he  says, 
"for  devout  gratitude  to  a  merciful  Heavenly 
Father." 

He  and  his  very  helpful  wife  are  in  the  enjoyment 
of  usual  good  health,  and  are  comfortably  and  cozi- 
ly  settled  in  the  parsonage  alongside  the  church 
building  at  Newton,  in  a  small  rural  community, 
"still  permitted  to  serve  in  the  Master's  vineyard." 

His  eldest  daughter,  Ethel,  was  educated  at  Star- 
key  Seminary.  Her  oldest  daughter,  Olivia,  is  in 
her  senior  year  at  McPherson  College,  Kan.;  her 
second  daughter,  Elizabeth  is  in  her  senior  year  at 
Northfield  Seminary,  and  her  son,  Howard,  died 
when  about  two  years  of  age. 

His  second  daughter,  Minerva,  married  Ira  Zer 
Allen,  1898,  and  they  have  a  son,  Dwight,  who  is  in 
the  high  school,  a  daughter,  Pamelia,  in  the  high 
school,  and  a  son,  Alva.  Mr.  Allen  has  been  Super- 
intendent of  Schools  and  is  now  in  school  work  at 
Brookline,  Mass. 

Alva's  son,  Herman,  is  a  railway  postal  clerk  and 
lives  in  Portland,  Me.  The  fourth  child,  Dwight  F., 
took  a  business  education  and  is  a  salesman.  The 
fifth  child,  Pamelia,  has  three  children,  David  R., 
John  C.  and  Mary  P.,  and  she  has  a  business  educa- 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  85 

tion.  Thus  we  see,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morrill  are  the 
happy  grandparents  of  eight  living  children  and  of 
another  who  died. 


FREDERICK  WESSON  NEWCOMB 
Born  1843-12-3;  died  1911-5-11 

Poor  health  kept  him  from  following  out  his  cher- 
ished hopes  of  being  a  minister  of  the  gospel.  His 
experiences  to  the  end  of  life  continued  to  be  very- 
much  the  same  as  those  reported  by  Frost.  All  his 
efforts  were  limited  and  hampered  by  reason  of 
physical  weakness. 


86  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


JOSEPH  PAUL  OTIS 
Born  1844-12-19;  died  1920-6-19 

He  had  been  in  failing  health  for  a  number  of 
years,  although  he  was  confined  to  his  bed  only  a 
few  weeks  before  his  death.  On  account  of  his 
feeble  health  he  had  not  practiced  his  profession  of 
law  very  much  during  his  last  years. 

He  had  been  elected  County  Attorney  several 
times,  and  in  1907  was  chosen  Judge  of  Probate  for 
the  term  of  four  years.  He  had  been  intrusted  with 
several  offices  of  trust.  This  was  said  of  him  in 
print  at  the  time  of  his  death :  "Judge  Otis  was  one 
of  the  men  of  Clay  County  who  played  a  large  part 
in  the  affairs  of  the  County  and  whose  life  is  closely 
interwoven  with  the  political  and  legal  life  of  the 
County  over  a  period  of  years.    He  had  no  enemies." 

He  left  an  adopted  daughter,  Mrs.  Winifred 
Mailen,  and  had  been  divorced  from  his  second 
wife.  "He  loved  Vermont,  and  to  his  dying  day  de- 
lighted to  talk  about  his  old  school,  old  classmates, 
and  what  all  were  doing  and  had  accomplished." 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  his 
body  was  taken  to  Vermont  and  buried  beside  that 
of  his  first  wife. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  87 


HENRY  DUTTON  PIERCE 
210  Madison  Ave.,  New  York  City- 
Pierce  rounded  out  forty-one  years  of  continuous 
service  for  the  Vermont  Marble  Co.,  the  last  twenty- 
eight  years  as  Manager  of  the  Chicago  Branch,  and 
retired,  Jan.  1,  1917,  under  a  rule  of  the  Company 
that  Managers,  and  in  fact  all  employees,  should 
drop  out  at  the  age  of  seventy,  but  an  exception  was 
made  in  his  case  by  the  President,  if  he  would  re- 
main, which  he  concluded  not  to  do. 

From  "The  Monument  News"  I  glean  the  follow- 
ing words :  "While  Mr.  Pierce  is  70  years  old,  he  has 
the  energy  and  activity  of  a  man  of  40,  and  is  not 
retiring  because  he  is  superannuated,  as  he  has  al- 
ready served  beyond  the  age  limit  at  which  most 
men  retire." "Since  taking  charge  of  the  Chi- 
cago Branch  he  has  been  a  resident  of  Oak  Park  and 
has  been  a  leader  in  civic  and  public  affairs  in  that 
suburb.  He  was  president  of  the  town  of  Cicero, 
including  Oak  Park  (population  28,000)*  for  two 
terms;  has  been  president  of  the  Board  of  Education 
for  five  years;  president  of  the  Dartmouth  Alumni 
Association  of  Chicago;  trustee  of  the  Scoville  In- 
stitute of  Oak  Park  and  president  of  the  Children's 
Home  for  many  years.  He  was  an  elector-at-large 
for  McKinley  and  Roosevelt  in  1900,  and  a  delegate 
to  the  memorable  convention  of  1904  that  nominat- 
ed Chas.  S.  Deneen  for  Governor."  The  Vermont 
Marble  Co.  is  one  of  the  greatest  marble  companies 
in  the  world.  There  was  a  picture  of  the  "General" 
in  this  article,  but  the  expression  of  his  face  was  so 
keen  and  searching  that  I  took  the  man  who  sat  for 
it  to  be  a  judge  about  to  fine  me  for  contempt  of 


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court,  or  one  reproving  counsel  for  indulging  in  triv- 
ial matters.  Some  years  ago  he  appeared  before 
me  in  my  office  in-cog  and  tried  to  faze  me  with  a 
similar  expression,  but  he  could  not  long  conceal  the 
well  known  twinkle  of  his  eyes.  He  was  chosen 
President  of  the  College  Alumni  Association  in 
1903.  At  one  time  he  was  President  of  the  Helen  E. 
Starrett  School  for  Young  Ladies.  When  in  the 
Board  of  Education  of  Cicero  he  organized  the  Oak 
Park  Cadets  and  help  secure  equipment  and  a  drill 
master.  In  local  political  matters  he  was,  as  usual, 
interested,  and  as  a  delegate  attended  many  town, 
County  and  State  conventions.  Some  of  his  friends 
secured  from  the  Gov,  a  commission  as  Colonel,  but 
having  served  as  a  private  in  the  Civil  War  he  had 
no  relish  for  merely  honorary  military  titles,  the 
acme  of  ambition  in  Kentucky. 

His  daughter,  Helen  E.,  after  attending  the  public 
schools  in  Oak  Park,  went  to  a  private  school  for 
young  ladies  two  years,  then  went  abroad  for  a  year, 
studying  Art  in  Paris  for  some  months,  later  grad- 
uated from  the  Chicago  Institute  of  Design,  and  still 
later  attended  Newcomb  College,  NewOrleans,  La., 
for  three  seasons,  taking  courses  in  the  designing 
department.  She  is  now  interested  in  the  church 
work  connected  with  St.  Mary  the  Virgin  church  in 
New  York  City.     She  is  unmarried. 

His  son,  Henry  K.  Pierce,  Dart.  1904,  attended 
New  York  Library  School,  Albany,  1905;  was  a 
member  of  the  Marthens  Marble  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
marble  finishers  and  decorators,  1906  to  1910;  em- 
ployed by  the  Vermont  Marble  Co.,  Chicago  Branch, 
as  draughtsman,  designer  and  estimator,  1910  to 
1916;  member  of  Oak  Park  library  Board  6  years; 
entered  the  General  Theological  School,  (Episco- 
pal) New  York  City,  1916;  graduated  1919;  in  1920 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  89 

given  a  Fellowship  for  1920,  and  became  an  Ordain- 
ed Priest  the  same  year.  He  is  now  on  the  Clergy 
Staff  of  St.  Mary  the  Virgin,  New  York  City,  and 
taking  a  special  course  in  Philosophy  at  Columbia 
University,  and  is  unmarried. 

Our  classmate  is  Treasurer  of  the  Churchmen's 
Alliance  and  on  its  Executive  Committee.  In  1917 
he  and  his  wife  made  a  trip  to  New  Orleans,  where 
their  daughter  was,  and  he  was  incidentally  delight- 
ed with  the  city  because  in  the  Civil  War  his  regi- 
ment was  located  there.  Since  1917  he  and  his 
wife  have  broken  up  the  years  by  living  in  New 
York  City  in  the  cold  seasons,  and  at  Gloucester, 
Mass.  and  Whitefield,  N.  H.  in  the  summer.  At 
Whitefield  they  practice  setting  up  two  small,  very 
complete  temporary  cottages,  and  need  no  "care- 
takers" in  the  cold  season  any  more  than  the  birds 
of  their  nests. 

Last  October,  some  weeks  after  returning  to  New 
York,  he  was  suddenly  and  surprisingly  reminded 
that  his  heart  and  arteries  were  not  just  as  they 
used  to  be,  so  that  he  is  now  looking  well  to  high 
blood-pressure  and  obliged  to  take  care  not  to  exert 
himself  seriously. 

Henry  has  kept  me  supplied  with  information 
since  becoming  Secretary  and  has  reminded  me  of 
some  amusing  episodes  in  which  we  shared  when 
Seniors  at  college.  It  will  be  a  happy  day  when  we 
sit  down  at  our  reunion  and  indulge  in  suggestions 
of  the  days-gone-by. 


CHARLES  WILLIAM  SANBORN 
Born  1849-12-19;  died  1886-1-17 

Frost  completed  the  record  as  to  him. 


90  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


JAMES  FRANCIS  SAVAGE 
Born  1849-2-24;  died  1920-7-2 

Savage  continued  to  be  Clerk  of  the  Lowell  Police 
Court  until  he  was  seventy  years  of  age,  Feb.  1919, 
when  he  retired,  rounding  out  thirty-four  years  of 
service.  The  members  of  the  Lowell  Bar  tendered 
him  a  beautiful  testimonial  of  affection  and  regard 
at  that  time.  Words  of  great  appreciation  of  his 
constant  kindness,  courtesy,  and  considerate  treat- 
ment, and  the  universal  respect  of  the  members  of 
the  bar  and  its  affection,  came  to  gladden  the  heart 
of  our  classmate.  He  resumed  such  work  as  a  law- 
yer as  one  might  render  at  his  age  with  impaired 
vitality.  Thus  he  worked  along  in  a  quiet  way  to 
the  end.  His  last  months  were  spent  mainly  in 
Probate  Court  lines,  of  which  he  had  been  able  to 
keep  in  touch,  even  while  the  Clerk  of  Court. 

No  one  could  meet  "Jim"  constantly  without  be- 
ing elevated  by  his  fine  qualities  of  mind  and  heart. 
His  affection  for  old-time  friends  shone  in  his  warm 
greetings,  while  his  wit  and  humor  always  brought 
happy  smiles.  Had  he  followed  the  practice  of  his 
profession  he  would  have  succeeded  in  such  lines  as 
demand  implicit  confidence  in  integrity,  especially, 
for  such  confidence  he  was  establishing  when  he  be- 
came Clerk  of  Court,  but  he  was  not  adapted  by 
nature  to  the  aggressive  "fighting-fields"  of  practice, 
and  lack  of  taste  for  those  fields  probably  led  to  his 
acceptance  of  the  clerical  work  which  he  followed 
so  long. 

His  wife  and  daughter,  Miriam,  survived  him. 
Miriam  graduated  from  Wellesley  College  in  1911, 


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then  took  a  year  at  the  same  institution  in  Art,  next, 
a  year  of  study  at  Cincinnati  Art  Academy  and  Art 
Museum,  then  a  year  in  charge  of  the  Art  Depart- 
ment at  Wilson  College,  Pa.,  teaching  art  from  1914 
to  1917,  Assistant  to  the  Director  of  the  Rhode 
Island  School  of  Design  and  Art,  resigning  in  1917 
on  account  of  the  ill  health  of  her  parents.  Since 
coming  to  her  home  she  has  assisted  the  Clerk  of  the 
Police  Court  of  Lowell. 


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CHARLES  HENRY  SAWYER 
Kearney,  Neb. 

He  was  born  in  the  Granite  State  and  has  been 
back  twice,  at  least,  since  going  west,  once  on  his 
wedding  trip  in  1881,  and  again  in  1912  at  our  re- 
union. In  1904  Solon  Towne  vouched  for  him  as  a 
civil  engineer  in  the  employ  of  the  Union  Pacific, 
with  no  signs  of  wear  and  tear,  hardly  a  sprinkle  of 
gray  hair,  and  reserve  energies  such  as  would  ex- 
haust most  of  the  class  on  a  forced  march.  This  ap- 
peared justified  by  his  appearance  in  1912  at  Han- 
over. In  his  letter  to  me  he  makes  no  mention  of 
physical  infirmities  or  any  abatement  of  his  natural 
forces,  and  my  opinion  is  that  he  still  indulges  in  his 
favorite  pastimes,  chess  and  botany,  to  furnish  food 
for  his  reserve  energy.  He  continued  to  keep  the 
alignment  and  surveys  of  the  Union  Pacific  perfect 
in  his  field  until  1919,  when  he  concluded  to  retire 
on  the  pension  plan  of  the  railroad,  he  being  on  the 
upper  side  of  seventy.  He  writes  that  he  is  "taking 
life  pretty  easy,"  which  means  a  good  big  change  in 
his  case.      (Surely  he  depends  on  our  credulity.) 

He  has  two  sons,  Charles  N.  and  Harry  E.  The 
older,  Charles,  has  followed  the  military  career  for 
which  he  was  educated  at  West  Point.  Following 
his  graduation  in  1912,  he  was  assigned  to  various 
points,  rank  2nd  Lieutenant,  until  1916,  when,  with 
the  rank  of  Major,  he  was  assigned  to  a  battalion  of 
the  Signal  Corps  and  in  the  summer  of  1918,  in  ad- 
vance of  the  battalion,  went  to  France  and  was  as- 
signed to  the  26th,  Yankee,  Division  as  chief  signal 
officer,  an  important  position  in  a  division  which  saw 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  93 

very  hard  service,  and  when  that  division  came  back 
to  the  United  States,  he  became  base  signal  officer  at 
St.  Nazaire  and  returned  in  July,  1919,  as  Lieut. 
Col. ;  taking  the  privilege  of  a  post-graduate  course 
in  electricity  at  New  Haven,  he  was  then  assigned 
as  instructor  in  the  Signal  Corps  School  at  Camp 
Vail,  N.  J.,  where  he  now  is. 

Harry  E.,  Dart.  1912,  A.  B.,  went  to  the  service  of 
the  Carnegie  Institute  at  Washington,  D.  C,  in  the 
Department  of  Terrestrial  Magnetism,  and  in  that 
service  has  traveled  very  widely  throughout  Africa 
and  in  the  Far  East,  with  most  trying  and  adventur- 
ous experiences,  worthy  of  a  long  book.  He  is  now 
with  his  parents,  and  clearly,  in  energy,  endurance 
and  taste  for  scientific  work,  he  is  a  "chip  of  the  old 
block. "  Since  his  tenth  reunion  coincides  with  his 
father's  fiftieth,  there  can  be  no  uncertainty  about 
where  they  will  both  be  found  in  1922. 

Mrs.  Sawyer  is  very  well,  and  we  conjecture,  with 
reason,  that  she  is  busy  in  keeping  her  husband, 
since  his  retirement  from  his  work  out  of  doors,  bot- 
anizing, lest  he  whittle  up  all  the  funiture  in  satis- 
fying his  pent-up  vim.  The  son,  Charles,  has  a  wife 
and  two  daughters. 


94  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


HENRY  MANN  SILVER 
276  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City 

I  received  a  letter  from  Dr.  Silver  as  to  his  life 
since  1904  as  a  surgeon,  so  fitly  and  connectedly 
framed  that  to  transpose  it  into  the  third  person,  as  I 
have  done  in  many  cases,  would  tend  to  obscure  and 
mar  the  fine  personal  quality  inhering  in  the  first 
person,  therefore  I  shall  use  his  own  words.  We 
never  hear  about  him  except  as  in  the  front  rank  of 
surgery  in  New  York  City,  and  it  makes  all  of  us 
glad  and  proud  to  learn  most  intimately  of  his  work 
and  standing,  therefore  I  quote: 

"Frost's  class  history  published  in  1904  left  me 
'going  at  full  speed  ahead'  with  my  active  hospital 
and  surgical  consultation  practice,  varied  only  by 
the  interest  in  rare  surgical  cases  and  the  presidency 
of  hospital  boards  and  smaller  medical  societies 
with  which  I  was  connected.  In  1913  I  was  honor- 
ed with  the  presidency  of  the  Society  of  the  Alumni 
of  Bellevue  Hospital,  a  Society  composed  of  former 
internes  of  the  hospital,  many  of  whom  had  become 
distinguished  in  the  profession.  At  my  suggestion 
the  Society  varied  the  programs  by  holding  clinical 
meetings  in  the  Amphitheater  of  the  hospital.  At 
these  meetings  cases  of  rare  interest  were  brought 
before  the  Society  and  demonstrated  by  the  profess- 
or in  charge  of  the  case.  One  case  in  particular, 
demonstrated  as  anthrax,  interested  me  very  much 
as  I  had  never  seen  a  case  before. 

Since  leaying  Hanover  it  has  been  the  dream  of 
my  life  to  do  something  for  the  schools  which  did  so 
much  to  prepare  me  for  my  life  work.     It  was  not 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  95 

until  1913  that  my  bank  account  was  sufficiently 
large  to  make  a  start  in  carrying  out  the  idea. 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  Meriden,  N.  H.,  being  the 
first  school  I  attended  after  leaving  home,  was  sel- 
ected for  the  first  gift,  which  was  a  fully  equipped 
gymnasium,  together  with  a  projection  apparatus 
for  moving  pictures.  Head  Master  Tracy  in  the 
first  number  (Nov.  1914)  of  the  Bulletin  of  Kimball 
Union  Academy  states,  'that  not  for  many  years  has 
there  come  a  gift  to  the  school  more  timely.  Dr. 
Silver  in  providing  the  building  and  its  entire  equip- 
ment is  performing  a  great  and  definite  service  to 
the  Academy,  for  which  generations  of  students  will 
have  reason  to  thank  him/ 

In  1914  I  was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the  American 
College  of  Surgeons,  an  organization  composed  of 
most  of  the  ablest  and  best  known  surgeons  of  North 
America  and  soon  to  include  those  of  South  Ameri- 
ca. With  increasing  power  and  influence  it  will 
soon  revolutionize  the  practice  of  surgery  by  stan- 
dardizing the  hospitals  and  the  clinical  practice  of 
surgery.  The  College  aims  to  bring  to  every  pa- 
tient, however  humble,  the  highest  service  known  to 
the  profession. 

Early  in  Oct.  1915,  I  received  a  telephone  mes- 
sage from  a  lady  living  out  of  town  requesting  me  to 
make  arrangements  for  a  room  in  a  hospital  as  her 
husband  was  suffering  from  a  disease  which  puz- 
zled their  local  physician  and  he  wished  to  come  to 
New  York  and  place  himself  in  my  care.  On  ex- 
amining the  patient  after  he  reached  the  hospital,  I 
immediately  made  a  diagnosis  of  anthrax  from  the 
close  resemblance  of  this  case  to  one  seen  in  Belle- 
vue  Hospital  some  time  before.  The  hospital  au- 
thorities, fearing  a  spread  of  the  disease,  requested 
me  to  transfer  the  patient  at  once  to  Bellevue  Hos- 


96  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

pital.  Here  he  was  placed  in  the  isolation  ward. 
In  spite  of  the  use  of  the  Eichorn  anthrax  serum, 
sent  from  Washington  by  special  messenger,  the 
patient  after  five  days  of  suffering  died,  no  source 
of  infection  having  been  found.  This  patient  was 
our  classmate,  George  F.  Stackpole. 

A  letter  received  from  the  Trustees  of  Bellevue 
and  Allied  Hospital,  early  in  1916,  suddenly  ter- 
minated my  active  hospital  work,  extending  over  a 
period  of  nearly  thirty  years.  The  retirement  was 
caused  by  a  rule,  recently  adopted  in  the  depart- 
ment, retiring  a  surgeon  from  active  service  at  the 
age  of  sixty.  The  letter  also  informed  me  that  the 
Trustees  had  appointed  me  Consulting  Surgeon  to 
Gouverneur  Hospital.  Only  those  who  have  been 
on  the  active  staff  of  a  large  hospital  can  appreciate 
the  honor  of  such  an  appointment. 

I  have  written  no  books  on  Medicine  or  Surgery 
and  have  read  and  published  very  few  papers  on 
surgical  subjects.  If  I  had  followed  the  advice  of 
our  classmate,  Dr.  Dana,  who  repeatedly  in  the 
early  days  of  our  practice  urged  me  to  write  and 
write,  giving  the  results  of  my  experience  in  surgery 
to  the  profession,  I  might  have  been  more  widely 
known  as  a  surgeon.  It  is  with  feelings  of  pleasure 
and  pride  that  I  look  back  over  the  forty-five  years 
of  my  professional  life.  With  pleasure — because 
during  the  time  the  wonderful  development  of 
modern  medicine  and  surgery  has  taken  place. 
With  the  aid  of  visits  to  the  great  clinics  of  Mayo, 
Murphy  and  Crile  I  have  been  able  to  watch  these 
developments  and  use  them  in  my  own  private  and 
hospital  practice. 

With  pride — because,  in  a  small  way,  I  helped  to 
develop  the  first  training  school  for  nurses  in 
America.     Without  doubt  the  training  of  nurses  to 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  97 

care  for  the  sick  has  been  the  greatest  boon  that  has 
ever  fallen  to  suffering  humanity.  The  first  train- 
ing school  for  nurses  was  established  in  Bellevue 
Hospital  while  I  was  a  member  of  the  house  staff. 
For  nearly  two  years  I  lectured  on  surgery  to  the 
nurses,  and  it  was  a  nurse  trained  in  my  surgical 
ward  who  established  the  training  school  for  nurses 
in  the  New  York  and  Massachusetts  General  Hos- 
pitals. From  this  small  beginning  I  have  watched 
the  movement  spread  until  now  nearly  every  hospi- 
tal of  fifty  beds  has  its  training  school  for  nurses. 

I  am  a  member  of  the  usual  National,  State  and 
County  Medical  Societies.  My  vacation  month, 
August,  is  divided  between  South  Harpswell,  Me., 
and  Camp  Occum,  Lake  Morey,  Fairlee,  Vt.  It  is 
purely  a  month  of  rest." 


98  HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

ALBERT  GRAY  SOMERS 
Aberdeen,  South  Dakota 

Somers  was  residing  at  Summit,  S.  D.  in  1904, 
and,  beginning  Sept.  12,  1920  with  letters  to  him 
there,  my  fifth  letter  of  Feb.  8  was  the  only  one 
which  reached  him,  finding  him  at  Aberdeen  where 
he  had  moved  in  1906.  I  had  about  given  him  over 
to  "hardness  of  heart,"  but  it  seems  that  he  had  not 
suffered  from  human  plagues  as  I  had  assumed. 
This  once  more  establishes  my  fisherman's  rule, 
"Keep  casting  your  flies  and  sooner  or  later  the  fish 
will  rise.,, 

Our  classmate  was  in  the  lower  house  of  the  South 
Dakota  legislature,  covering  a  period  of  six  years, 
1897-1903,  serving  the  first  term  on  the  floor  of  the 
house;  the  second  and  third  in  the  Speaker's  chair, 
in  which  position  our  History  left  him  in  1904. 

At  Summit  he  served  as  police  and  civil  justice 
part  of  the  time,  and  carried  on  a  general  collection 
business,  fire  and  hail  insurance  and  conveyancing. 
In  the  fall  of  1911  he  came  to  Vermont  to  adminis- 
ter on  the  estates  of  his  mother  and  brother,  and 
since  then  has  not  engaged  actively  in  business. 

Aberdeen  is  quite  a  large  city  about  sixty  miles 
west  of  Summit.  "Jack"  is  cordially  interested  in 
the  class  of  '72,  and  we  would  all  have  been  very 
much  grieved  not  to  have  heard  from  him  to  be  as- 
sured of  the  old-time  fraternal  feelings. 

He  has  never  married,  on  account  of  which  he  has 
the  sympathy  of  all  but  a  meagre  few  of  the  class 
who  of  course  have  attracted  many  unwinning  at- 
tentions. It  would  be  entertaining  if  these  coy  fel- 
lows would  indulge  us  in  an  account  of  their  ro- 
mances, but  in  the  case  of  Somers  he  probably  has 
the  reserve  of  his  Scotch  ancestry. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  99 


HENRY  LEVI  SLACK 
Born  1847-8-30;  died  1905-3-25 

He  died  at  Bethel,  Conn,  of  a  general  breaking 
down  of  his  vital  organs.  Quoting  from  our  class- 
mate, J.  A.  Freeman,  "Our  classmate  was  one  of  the 
ablest  ministers  in  the  State  of  Connecticut,  and  one 
of  the  finest  specimens  of  manhood  I  have  ever 
seen."  He  was  survived  by  a  wife  and  four  chil- 
dren, of  whom  our  History  speaks  with  fullness 
down  to  its  date. 

Elvira,  after  graduating  from  Wellesley,  1902, 
was  C.  A.  Secretary,  North  Western  University, 
down  to  1904;  from  1904  to  '07,  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Sect., 
Wellesley;  1907,  received  A.  M.  in  Lit.  Wellesley; 
1908  to  '16,  teacher  of  Literature  at  Adelphi  Acad- 
emy, Brooklyn,  N.  Y.;  1916  to  '20,  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Stu- 
dent Sect,  for  Middle  West,  Denver,  Col.  She  has 
resigned  and  at  present  is  in  N.  Y.  taking  lectures  at 
Union  and  Columbia.  She  has  written  "The  Man 
of  Galilee, "  a  little  book  for  Bible  study,  also  com- 
piled a  book  for  girls,  "A  Canticle  of  the  year." 

John  P.,  non-graduate  at  Dart.  1906;  1906  to  '17, 
newspaper  work  and  advertising  in  New  York  and 
Philadelphia.  He  enlisted  in  1918  in  the  navy  and 
is  Chief  Steward  on  the  S.  S.  Provincetown.  He 
married  Alma  Ralph,  of  Philadelphia,  in  1914,  and 
is  now  on  his  28th  trip  across  to  France. 

Helen  L.,  graduated  at  Wellesley  in  1909;  1910, 
Teacher  in  Bethel  High,  Conn.;  1911,  entered 
School  of  Fine  Arts,  N.  Y.;  1914  to  '17,  Teacher  of 
Art  at  Packer  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  1917  to 
'19,  Reconstruction  Aide,  Pyscopathy,  in  Camps  Dix 


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and  Carlisle;  1919,  Dec.  15,  married  Lieutenant  in 
the  Canadian  Army,  Alfred  A.  Wickenden,  a  Co- 
lumbia graduate  in  Civil  Engineering;  living  at 
Three  Rivers,  Can. 

Grace  F.,  graduated  at  Wellesley,  1912,  Phi  Beta 
Kappa;  1912  to  '14,  Teacher  in  Walnut  Lane  School, 
Germantown,  Pa.;  Oct.  2,  1914,  married  Robert  Lin- 
coln McNeil,  a  Pharmaceutical  Chemist  of  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.,  and  graduate  of  Penn.  University.  They 
have  two  boys,  home  5039  Schuyler  St.  Phil.  Pa. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  101 


GEORGE  FRANCIS  STACKPOLE 
Born  1843-11-29;  died  1915-10 

He  died  from  the  poisonous  effects  of  anthrax, 
his  aged  heart  being  unable  to  throw  it  off.  In  his 
fight  for  life  he  exhibited  the  old  time  pluck.  We 
all  remember  him  as  no  "chicken  hearted  man,"  no 
"quitter"  until  the  bell  rung  and  closed  the  race. 
The  papers  of  the  day  in  New  York  and  elsewhere 
gave  full  account  of  his  fight  for  life  in  a  case  which 
was  rare  and  interesting  to  the  medical  fraternity. 
Please  refer  to  my  report  about  Dr.  Silver.  When 
he  was  told  that  there  was  no  hope,  and  was  asked 
if  he  desired  the  services  of  a  clergyman,  he  was 
"Stack."  "Clergyman?"  he  queried,  "For  over  fifty 
years  I  have  been  a  Christian  and  a  God  fearing 
man.  If  I  am  not  prepared  after  all  that,  a  clergy- 
man will  do  me  no  good." 

He  occupied  a  unique  place  in  his  town,  River- 
head,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.  Quoting  from  published  reports 
at  the  time,  "He  was  as  much  of  an  institution  there 
as  Riverhead  itself,  and  now  that  he  is  gone  it  will 
seem  as  if  some  integral  part  of  the  town  had  be- 
come separated  from  the  rest.  There  were  several 
ex-judges  in  Riverhead,  but  whenever  any  one 
spoke  of  the  'judge/  it  was  commonly  known  that 
it  had  reference  to  only  one  man,  and  that,  George 
Stackpole." 

He  was  popularly  supposed  to  have  contracted 
this  exceptional  disease  while  leaning  against  an  old 
hitching  post,  telling  stories  to  his  admiring  cronies, 
but  that  source  of  infection  cannot  be  substantiated. 
When  the  tide  of  life  was  at  its  ebb,  he  swung  into 


102         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

the  majestic  lines  of  Thanatopsis  and  continued 
through  the  entire  poem  without  a  pause  or  fault. 
He  was  an  exemplification  in  actual  life  of  the  lov- 
able character  in  fiction  of  David  Harum.  As  erect 
as  a  ramrod,  he  was  a  striking  man  physically,  a 
"dependable  man," — "you  always  knew  where  to 
find  him,"  they  said. 

Quoting,  "It  is  hard  to  mention  any  society  or  or- 
ganization in  which  he  had  not  taken  a  leading  and 
prominent  part."  So  many  fine  things  were  said  to 
his  credit  that  it  is  hard  to  make  a  selection.  He 
was  a  strong  man,  lovable,  entertaining,  influential 
in  the  right  direction  in  all  local  interests,  a  man 
who  left  a  gap  which  no  one  will  ever  fill  in  that 
community. 

His  wife  survived  him  and  his  daughter  and  son. 
The  widow  lives  at  the  home,  Riverhead.  Syrena, 
the  daughter,  graduated  from  Bradford  Academy 
in  1905,  from  Wellesley  College  in  1909,  A.  B.,  and 
Law  School  of  N.  Y.  University  in  1919,  degree,  J. 
D.  In  November  1919  she  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  New  York  State  and  at  present  is  connected  with 
the  firm  of  Hawkins,  Delafield  and  Longfellow,  20 
Exchange  Place,  New  York. 

The  son,  Philip  W.,  graduated  from  Dart.  1916, 
then  taught  Mathematics  about  a  year,  then  from 
May  7th,  1917,  to  December  23,  1919,  was  in  war 
service  in  France.  He  is  now  engaged  in  the  in- 
vestment banking  business  in  New  York  City,  56 
William  St.,  and  is  unmarried. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  103 


RALPH  TALBOT 
Born  1850-8-17;  died  1911-6-28 

The  notice  of  the  death  of  Ralph,  sent  out  to  us 
by  our  Secretary,  Feb.  22,  1912,  speaks  of  creeping 
paralysis  as  attacking  him  March  4,  1911,  and  that 
it  was  the  price  of  overwork.  Neither  of  my  letters 
addressed  to  Denver  reached  Mrs.  Talbot  until  in 
January  and  her  prompt  response  did  not  relate  to 
the  events  of  the  closing  years  of  our  classmate. 
However,  we  may  assume  with  certainty  that  he 
continued  his  activities  along  the  same  lines  of  high 
endeavor  and  worthy  achievement  described  in  our 
History  of  1904,  and  that  he  retained  the  honor  and 
esteem  in  his  city  which  had  been  justly  his  for 
many  years. 

Those  of  use  who  were  present  at  our  '97  reunion 
will  recall  vividly  the  sparkling  life  and  enthusiasm 
of  his  every  word  and  act.  To  have  the  opportun- 
ity of  greeting  him  then  was  to  inhale  the  atmos- 
phere of  Colorado  altitudes  and  to  thrill  with  cur- 
rents of  energy  which  do  not  short-circuit  as  lively 
this  side  of  the  back-bone  of  the  Continent.  Ralph 
by  nature  was  very  intense,  and  this  marked  tem- 
perament, having  been  allowed  free  course  in  his 
work,  probably  burned  too  rapidly  his  great  store 
of  vitality.  Had  he  been  spared  to  attend  our  gold- 
en reunion,  his  distinctive  personality  would  have 
added  a  sparkling  vivacity  to  the  occasion. 

None  of  his  family  are  now  living  in  Denver.  His 
widow,  Frances  Hardin  Talbot,  lives  at  1335  South 
35th  Avenue,  Omaha,  Neb.  Their  daughter,  Alice, 
married  R.  F.  McElvenny,  now  Manager  of  the  Gar- 
field Smelter,   Utah,  and  Refinery,   Omaha.     They 


104         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

have  three  children,  Robert,  Jr.,  Ralph  W.  and 
Frances  H. 

The  four  sons  of  our  classmate  were  all  in  the 
World  War,  an  exhibition  of  militant,  patriotic  spir- 
it that  would  have  satisfied  even  the  intense  soul  of 
their  father. 

Ralph,  Jr.,  graduate  of  West  Point,  was  a  Colonel 
of  Cavalry,  and  personnel  officer  at  Washington,  D. 
C,  and  is  now  stationed  in  Coblenz,  Germany.  He 
married  Marguerite  Morgan,  daughter  of  Col.  G.  W. 
Morgan,  retired,  and  they  have  a  son,  Ralph,  3rd, 
and  daughter,  Peggy  Lu. 

Charles  H.,  second  son  of  our  classmate,  a  lawyer 
by  profession,  was  Captain  of  Infantry  in  the  Colo- 
rado Guards.  After  his  service  in  the  war  he  did 
not  resume  his  professional  practice.  He  married 
Hazel  Smith,  of  Denver,  and  they  live  in  California 
and  have  two  children,  Chas.  H.,  Jr.,  and  Jane. 

Robert  Emmet,  third  son,  married  Mary  Heaney 
before  going  to  France.  He,  by  profession  a  phys- 
ician, was  a  major  in  the  Medical  Dept.  of  the  Colo- 
rado Guards,  and  they  have  one  child,  Robert  E.,  Jr., 
and  live  at  Dragon,  Utah.  At  present  he  is  prac- 
ticing medicine,  being  in  the  employ  of  the  Uinatah 
Railroad  of  Colorado  and  Rainbow  Mine. 

Laurence  D.,  youngest  son,  is  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
U.  S.  Regular  Army,  and  is  now  stationed  at  Fort 
Ringgold,  Tex.     He  was  married  in  Nov.  1920. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  105 


EVERETT  TOTMAN 

Needham,  Massachusetts 

In  1908  Totman  sold  out  his  hardware,  stove  and 
furnace  business  at  Waltham,  Mass.,  in  which  he 
had  been  engaged  a  number  of  years,  and  in  Dec. 
moved  to  Concord,  Mass. 

He  married  Lillian  F.  Hatch  of  Concord,  Nov.  30, 
1905  and  they  have  no  children. 

In  June  1911,  he  moved  to  his  present  residence, 
and  in  March  1914  was  appointed  Town  Accountant 
for  the  term  of  three  years,  and  since  that  term  has 
been  reappointed  twice.  Needham  is  a  suburban 
town,  13  miles  from  Boston,  population  7,000. 

He  is  in  good  health  and  expects  to  attend  our  re- 
union in  1922.  Politically,  he  voted  on  the  winning 
side  in  November.  He  is  enjoying  the  entire  confi- 
dence of  the  town  in  which  he  resides.  He  would 
not  say  so,  but  there  is  no  doubt  about  it. 

He  came  to  us  from  Bowdoin  College  in  1871, 
and,  although  he  drank  in  our  influences  only  a  lit- 
tle more  than  a  year,  he  improved  that  period  better 
than  Ponce  de  Leon  did  his  voyage  of  discovery,  for 
he  found  the  "Fountain  of  Youth, "  insuring  a  long 
lease  of  life,  fine  ethical  standards,  and,  withal, 
prosperity,  of  which  he  is  too  modest  to  write. 


Everett  Totman  died  April  18, 1921,  at  his  home  in  Needham,  Mass., 
after  a  short  illness.  He  left  a  widow,  Mrs.  Lillian  Totman,  a  teacher 
in  the  public  schools. 


106         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


SOLON  RODNEY  TOWNE 
Hilaire  Cottage,  St.  D.  R.  2,  Omaha,  Neb. 

Dr.  Towne  began  practice  as  a  physician  at  Oma- 
ha in  1888,  after  practicing  twelve  years  at  Enfield, 
Mass.  Recourse  should  be  had  to  our  1904  History 
for  information  as  to  his  fields  of  professional  activ- 
ity, his  relations  as  an  expert  to  certain  lines,  as  well 
as  his  various  services  for  the  advancement  of  public 
health  in  Nebraska,  protecting  against  and  stamp- 
ing out  contagious  diseases,  efficient  sanitary  re- 
forms in  the  schools  and  the  adoption  of  better  quar- 
antine methods. 

He  has  been  President  of  the  Nebraska  Tubercu- 
losis Association  for  many  years,  and  as  Chairman 
of  the  Executive  Committee  has  been  continuously 
active,  traveling  widely  in  Nebraska  to  assist  the  lo- 
cal authorities  under  the  auspices  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health.  They  took  part  in  the  inauguration  of 
a  Children's  Health  Crusade,  meeting  teachers  at 
Institutes  to  interest  them  and  secure  them  as  work- 
ers, and  made  a  success  of  it.  He  was  largely  in- 
strumental in  getting  laws  passed  to  secure  vital 
statistics,  and  thereby  put  his  state  on  the  map  in 
that  respect.  From  1900  to  1918  he  occupied  the 
chair  upon  Public  Health  in  the  Nebraska  Univer- 
sity, and  is  now  such,  emeritus. 

Our  former  history  shows  his  eminent  social  serv- 
ice in  Omaha,  and  his  earnest  devotion  to  the  pro- 
motion of  every  local  reform,  his  love  of  nature  stud- 
ies of  bird-life,  wood-lore  and  plant-life  at  first 
hand,  in  the  ravines  among  the  bluffs  of  the  near-by 
Missouri  River. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  107 

He  had  in  1904  begun  his  third  year  as  physician 
to  the  Nebraska  School  for  the  Deaf.  That  work 
and  other  important  matters  of  Public  Health  took 
him  away  from  his  private  practice  as  a  physician 
so  long  that  when  those  duties  no  longer  required 
his  whole  time  he  concluded  that  it  would  not  be 
wise  to  undertake  to  resume  and  build  up  his  prac- 
tice, but  to  find  duty  in  the  ways  of  public  service, 
not  on  account  of  remunerative  returns,  but  because 
of  great  importance  to  his  city  and  the  state.  For 
fifteen  years  the  Public  Health  side  of  medicine,  in 
the  main,  has  closely  occupied  his  mind. 

He  is  President  of  the  local  Audubon  Society,  es- 
tablished twenty  years,  and  its  work  is  extensive  and 
in  a  large  sense  effective.  Through  the  co-opera- 
tion of  teachers,  ten  thousand  junior  members  were 
enlisted  and  pledged  not  to  injure  birds  or  their 
nests.  Eight  hundred  acres  along  the  bluffs  of  the 
river-ravines  are  controlled  as  a  sort  of  park  and 
sanctuary  for  bird-life  where  Boy  Scout,  Camp-Fire 
Girls,  Y.  W.  C.  A.  and  other  organizations  pitch 
their  tents  for  recreation,  and  people  from  the  city 
come  and  rusticate  between  business  hours.  Solon 
has  joined  enthusiastically  in  promoting  this  enter- 
prise for  health,  civic  influence,  and  to  make  the 
workers  and  the  children  happy. 

His  home,  "Hilaire  Cottage, "  is  just  a  little  out  of 
town,  and  there  he  has  brought  under  fine  cultiv- 
ation his  daughters  five  acres,  raising  through  his 
own  elbow-grease  all  sorts  of  garden  products,  and, 
incidentally,  about  the  place  he  can  observe  some 
sixty  varieties  of  birds  and  their  migrations.  With 
things  so  suited  to  his  taste  and  ardent  love  of 
nature  study,  with  beauty,  bird-songs  and  sights, 
and,  withal,  an  opportunity  for  economic  applica- 
tion in  Nebraska  of  the  results  of  what  he  learns, 


108         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

surely  he  leads  an  idyllic  life,  consecrated  happily, 
not  to  mere  personal  pleasure,  although  incident- 
ally enjoyable,  but  to  noble  and  worthy  ends.  An 
absorbing  sense  of  duty  to  others  shines  in  all  the 
years  since  we  knew  him.  We  cannot  name  any 
distinctive  college  degrees  which  would  honor 
him,  but  we  can  think  of  college  degrees  which 
would  be  honored,  if  conferred  on  him. 

His  health  has  remained  excellent.  His  wife  met 
with  a  bad  accident  in  1916  that  has  made  walking 
impossible  most  of  the  time  since,  even  with  a  cane, 
but  she  has  a  wealth  of  cheerfulness  and  a  busy 
mind.  The  daughter,  Mary,  born  in  1876,  was  a 
Kindergartner  for  some  time,  but  now  she  is  the 
"Martha"  of  the  home,  and  though  not  physically 
strong,  she  can  cook  and  keep  house  for  Dad  and 
Ma  in  a  way  that  keeps  them  happy.  She,  too,  is  a 
lover  of  nature-studies. 

The  other  daughter,  Jessie  M.,  born  1874,  taught 
English  and  Latin  in  the  Omaha  High  School,  begin- 
ning about  1897,  and  now  she  is  Dean  of  over  a 
thousand  girls  in  that  school,  with  an  exceptionally 
high  salary. 

The  son,  Robert  S.,  born  1878,  married,  has  two 
daughters.  Since  1915  he  has  waged  a  brave  fight 
against  tuberculosis,  and,  improved,  is  able  to  serve 
as  Express  Claim  Agent,  for  Colorado,  working  in 
an  open  veranda. 

The  youngest  child,  Alice  C,  born  1884,  Neb.  Uni- 
versity, in  1904  taking  a  Physical  Director  course, 
married  Fred  M.  Deweese,  also  Neb.  University  and 
later  Columbia  Law  School,  and  now  they  are  locat- 
ed on  a  farm  100  miles  south  of  Omaha  on  the  Kan- 
sas line  at  "Hilaire  Farm."  They  have  three  chil- 
dren, and  both  are  leaders  in  many  community  in- 
terests, counting  effectively  in  all  the  war  "Drives." 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  109 

Mrs.  Deweese  wrote  "Produce  and  Preserve,"  a  cir- 
cular which  received  notable  attention  through  Ne- 
braska in  1918,  and  she  was  state  leader  on  the 
"Women's  Council  of  Defense"  for  food  production 
in  war  time,  and  is  favorably  mentioned  by  promin- 
ent suffragists  for  Regent  of  Nebraska  University. 
Alice  is  a  woman  of  varied  capacity,  and  can  "do 
things." 


110        HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 


FREDERICK  MARQUAND  TRASK 
845  Judson  Ave.,  Evanston,  111. 

After  practicing  as  a  physician  in  Chicago  some 
twenty-five  years,  he  accepted  the  position  of  trav- 
eling salesman  for  a  Pharmaceutical  House  of  im- 
portance, moving  to  Wilmette,  111.  in  1910,  and  later 
in  1918  to  his  present  home,  keeping  up  his  last  oc- 
cupation until  the  war  began.  Since  Feb.  1920,  ill- 
ness has  resulted  in  temporary  blindness,  but  his 
general  health  has  been  improving.  In  October  his 
wife  made  replies  to  my  enquiries  as  to  his  activities 
since  our  last  report  in  1904,  and  Feb.  11,  I  got  the 
latest  news,  his  wife  saying  that  his  eyesight  is  very 
slowly  improving  but  that  he  is  not  yet  able  to  read, 
and  that  his  general  condition  is  stronger. 

As  we  can  see,  Fred's  illness  has  been  a  very  un- 
fortunate one  and  has  put  him  out  of  the  working 
force.  He  and  his  family  have  our  profound  sym- 
pathy and  fond  hopes  for  his  restoration  to  sight 
and  comfort.  I  have  expressed  to  him  and  his  wife 
what  I  know  to  be  the  feelings  of  all  his  classmates, 
and  they  have  appreciated  our  interest  and  kindest 
wishes. 

They  have  a  son  and  daughter.  The  son,  Win- 
throp  M.,  born  in  1884,  was  married  to  Edna  E. 
Bates  of  Evanston  in  1916,  and  they  have  two  chil- 
dren. The  daughter  of  Fred  and  wife,  Marjorie  M., 
has  never  married,  and  lives  at  home  with  her  par- 
ents. Mrs.  Trask  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Presi- 
dent Eleazor  Wheelock,  fifth  remove,  and  is  justly 
proud  of  her  ancestry. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  HI 


GEORGE  THOMAS  TUTTLE 
110  Highland  St.,  Milton,  Mass. 

Dr.  Tuttle's  work  and  his  high  standing  were  so 
fully  and  justly  set  forth  by  Dr.  Edward  Cowles, 
Supt.  of  McLean  Hospital,  in  our  History,  that  no- 
thing need  be  added  by  the  writer,  not  even  to  say, 
what  is  perfectly  clear  to  all  of  us,  that  his  standard 
of  service  never  moved  other  than  upward  under  in- 
creased responsibilities.  I  joined  him  and  Savage 
in  attending  Dartmouth  Sesqui-Centennial  in  Oct. 
1919,  and  we  had  a  very  enjoyable  time.  He  was 
well  and  full  of  the  old  Dartmouth  spirit. 

On  the  retirement  of  Dr.  Cowles,  he  became  Med- 
ical Superintendent  of  McLean  Hospital,  Jan.  1, 
1904,  which  position  he  held  till  April  15,1919. 
Under  a  rule  of  the  Trustees  he  could  have  retired  at 
the  age  of  sixty-four,  but  the  rule  was  suspended 
and  he  resigned  five  years  later,  having  then  com- 
pleted a  continuous  service  of  assistant  physician 
and  superintendent  of  forty  years.  During  the  fif- 
teen-year period  of  his  superintendency,  four  new 
houses  were  built,  extensive  alterations  were  made 
in  three  others,  and  the  annual  income  of  the  hos- 
pital nearly  doubled. 

He  was  President  of  the  Middlesex  South  Dist. 
Medical  Society  (six  hundred  members)  for  two 
years,  1917  and  1918,  and  during  the  war  was  chair- 
man of  an  Auxiliary  Medical  Defense  Committee. 
Aside  from  medical  work  at  the  hospital,  he 
gave  expert  advice  and  testimony  in  a  large  number 
of  medico-legal  cases,  some  of  little,  others  of  con- 
siderable importance. 


112         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

In  1908  he  was  appointed  by  the  Governor,  Chair- 
man of  a  Commission  to  revise  and  codify  the  laws 
of  Massachusetts  relating  to  insane  persons,  express- 
ing in  a  very  definite  way  the  views  of  the  Governor 
as  to  the  scope  of  the  ability  and  judgment  of  the 
Doctor  in  the  field  to  which  he  had  devoted  his  life. 

He  had  not  written  much  for  publication,  but  we 
may  mention  "Hydrotherapeutics,"  in  American 
Journal  of  Insanity,  "The  Male  Nurse,"  Ibid,  "Re- 
port of  Committee  on  Training  School  for  Nurses," 
Ibid,  "History  of  McLean  Hospital,"  "The  Institu- 
tional Care  of  the  Insane  in  the  United  States  and 
Canada." 

He  married  Miss  Celeste  Albright  of  Dor- 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  May  14,  1914,  and  his  third 
foreign  trip  immediately  followed.  The  opening  of 
the  World  War  found  him  and  wife  in  Antwerp, 
whence  they  went  to  England  with  some  difficulty, 
annoying  at  the  time  but  of  pleasant  memory  now, 
he  remarks. 

Since  leaving  the  hospital  he  has  been  made  a 
Trustee  of  the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital, 
which  includes  the  McLean  Hospital,  and  has  lived 
in  apartments  at  the  Charlesgate  Hotel  in  Boston, 
having  practically  retired  from  the  practice  of  med- 
icine. An  attack  of  influenza  in  the  winter  of  1919- 
20  left  as  a  sequel  a  chest  trouble  said  not  to  be 
tuberculosis,  which  obliged  him  to  go  South  in  the 
spring,  and  because  of  it  he  is  wintering  in  Augusta, 
Georgia. 


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FREDERICK  HENRY  WALES 
Imperial,  Cal. 

Our  History  traces  the  labors  of  our  classmate 
down  to  April  1903,  when  he  was  on  a  government 
homestead  which  he  had  taken  up  at  Imperial.  A 
long  standing  bronchial  trouble  made  it  necessary  to 
give  up  preaching  and  try  the  effect  of  living  out- 
doors and  engaging  in  farming.  Imperial  is  now  a 
large  and  thriving  town  in  southern  California, 
southwest  of  "Salton  Sea."  Fred  has  been  a  pio- 
neer at  Riverside  and  also  Fresno,  the  "Raisin  City," 
towns  further  north,  and  when  in  1901  he  came  to 
Imperial  it  was  a  bleak  looking  stretch  of  land,  long 
looked  upon  as  no  better  than  a  desert.  From  the 
town  now  a  paved  highway  leads  south-west  over 
the  mountains,  as  also  does  a  railroad  to  San  Diego. 
In  that  valley  section  half  a  million  acres  are  under 
cultivation  through  the  application  of  irrigation, 
and  they  ship  annually  $70,000,000  worth  of  prod- 
uce. 

His  "help-meet,"  selected  in  1884,  proved  a  sore 
disappointment  in  the  life  of  a  clergyman,  and  in 
1891  she  quit  hampering  his  life.  Of  his  four  chil- 
dren, Eugene  died  at  19  and  Claribel  at  24  years  of 
age,  the  latter  leaving  a  daughter,  Lois,  and  son, 
Paul.  The  younger  daughter,  Ruth,  married  a  man 
who  proved  unworthy  and  from  whom  she  obtained 
a  divorce.  She  had  one  child  by  him,  William,  now 
alive.  She  married  later,  Lieut.  Harry  Backstein 
of  the  U.  S.  Marines,  now  a  Superintendent  for  the 
Standard  Oil  Co.  at  Fresno.  The  second  son  of 
Wales,  Fred,  married  Irene  Christine  in  1915,  and 


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they  have  no  children.  He  is  with  his  father  on  the 
ranch  of  280  acres. 

The  father  writes  that  they  are  "fighting  it  out," 
with  fifty  acres  of  cotton,  forty  of  alfalfa,  about  the 
same  of  Miloz  maize,  and  ten  of  castor-oil  beans. 
Our  classmate  preached  some  twenty-five  years  in 
California,  wrestling  most  of  the  years  with  bronchi- 
tis, and  reluctantly  had  to  yield  to  the  situation  and 
resort  to  this  out-door-life,  farming.  It  was  no 
small  undertaking,  after  the  career  of  a  minister,  to 
take  up  a  homestead  and  begin  farming  at  his  age, 
with  inexperience,  but  he  exhibited  rare  courage  in 
adverse  circumstances,  and  by  persistence  has  sur- 
mounted the  obstacles  of  the  seeming  desert  and 
made  his  280  acres,  near  the  "Salton  Sea,"  blossom 
with  fruit  more  useful  than  the  rose.  Once  in  his 
life  he  lost  his  home  and  contents  by  fire. 

In  a  letter  to  me  he  remarks  that,  "Time  has  dealt 
lightly  in  many  respects,  making  him  feel  scarcely 
older  than  fifty,  but  contented  to  remain  home  even- 
ings." He  came  East  in  1912  to  attend  our  reunion 
and  also  the  Centennial  of  Kimball  Union  Academy, 
but  missed  ours  by  going  first  to  Meriden,  assuming 
that  they  did  not  occur  at  the  same  time.  He  hopes, 
if  alive,  to  gather  with  the  class  at  its  next  reunion 
in  1922. 

But  for  Jewell  he  would  be  the  Patriarch  of  the 
class,  with  Somers  and  Galbraith  1st.  close  com- 
rades. We  all  recall  a  man  of  rather  slim  physique, 
not  apparently  of  the  most  enduring  vigor,  so  that, 
considering  his  throat  trouble,  a  serious  handicap  in 
preaching,  the  19-year-old  volunteer  of  the  Civil 
War,  of  the  42nd  Mass.  Regt.,  has  shown  wonderful 
vitality  and  made  good  use  of  his  opportunities, 
never  laying  down  his  arms  or  showing  the  "White 
Feather"  whatever  might  betide. 


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ARTHUR  NORMAN  WARD 
Arlington  Heights,  Mass. 

Our  record  in  1904  sets  forth  that  "Norman"  was 
at  Somerville,  Mass.,  where  he  had  resided  since 
1898,  without  a  charge  as  minister.  He  writes  that 
he  enjoyed  a  visit  from  Wales  last  summer.  Ward 
took  a  Civil  Service  examination  in  1904  and  not 
long  after  entered  Uncle  Sam's  employ  in  the  Cus- 
tom House,  Boston.  He  expected  to  be  retired  last 
August  at  the  age  of  seventy  years,  but  because  of 
good  health  and  ability  to  perform  his  duties  he  has 
been  reinstated  for  two  years  and  hopes  to  hold  out 
a  while  longer. 

His  wife  is  still  living,  and  both  his  children  are  at 
home  with  the  parents.  Arthur  H.  was  educated 
at  the  Essex  High  School  and  Rindge  Manual  Train- 
ing School  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  is  a  practical 
machinist.  Having  been  in  the  automobile  business, 
in  1917  he  enlisted  in  the  Motor  Transport  Corps, 
but  to  his  disappointment  was  sent  to  Waco,  Tex., 
where  he  stayed  twenty  months  and  never  had  the 
chance  to  go  "overseas." 

The  daughter,  Katherine,  graduated  at  Somerville 
High  School  and  Radcliffe  College,  class  of  1907, 
and  is  engaged  in  secretarial  work  in  Boston. 

Norman  wants  to  keep  alive  old  friendships  and 
memories,  so  he  purposes  to  be  at  our  reunion  in 
1922,  if  alive. 


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CHESTER  HORTON  WEAD 
Born  1851-2-17;  died  1907-8-23 

Many  years  before  his  death  a  fall  was  followed 
by  such  serious  consequences  that  for  a  time  he  was 
unable  to  attend  to  business,  but  about  the  year  1900 
he  removed  to  Aurora,  Mo.,  and  engaged  in  mining 
and  prospecting.  There  was  a  mild  recurrence  of 
old-time  troubles  during  the  four  years  preceding 
his  death,  which,  under  the  aggravating  heat  pre- 
vailing in  late  summer  in  1907,  resulted  in  his  sud- 
den death. 

The  foregoing  is  the  report  given  by  Frost  in  his 
notice  of  the  death  of  our  brother. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  11 7 


ROBERT  WILLIAM  WELCH 

Editorial  Rooms,  The  Times  Office,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

"Bob"  was  London  correspondent  of  the  New 
York  Times  when  our  record  left  off  in  June  1904. 
He  stayed  in  London  until  1907  and  then  came  back 
to  work  in  the  office  of  The  Times,  doing,  as  he  says, 
rather  unimportant  things.  Please  don't  assume 
from  his  super-modest  way  of  putting  "things"  that 
he  was  reading  little  waste  scraps  of  the  "ex- 
changes." He  seems  to  think,  because  all  the  re- 
sults of  his  good  judgment  go  into  the  minds  of  read- 
ers of  the  daily  news,  rather  than  into  the  great 
treasures  of  libraries,  that  it  is  of  small  consequence 
in  the  world. 

He  writes  me  that  he  is  now  reading  the  Times 
American  exchanges.  One  is  likely,  not  his  class- 
mates however,  to  infer  that  he  is  simply  a  living 
store  house  of  news  and  that  nothing  escapes  the 
sentry  at  the  closed  doors.  "Bob,"  you  are  cute, 
but  you  can't  delude  us.  He's  done  his  full  share  of 
the  "world's  work,"  and  it  is  inevitably  unseen  in  its 
effect.  We  cannot  justly  call  a  work  ephemeral  be- 
cause we  are  unable  to  follow  out  its  effect.  Some 
men  think  that  they  have  done  a  big  thing  when  they 
have  written  books,  and  we  know,  so  far  as  effects 
are  concerned,  they  have  but  wasted  the  reader's 
time  beyond  forgiveness,  that  is,  a  large  per  cent  of 
them  have. 

His  daughter,  Catharine  G.,  married  James  Fran- 
cis Dwyer,  in  January  1920,  a  literary  man,  and  she 
is  now  traveling  in  Europe..  Before  her  marriage 
she  was  a  literary  agent,  remarkably  successful,  and 


118         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

the  business  which  she  established  is  still  flourishing, 
she  having  sold  it  to  two  of  her  employees. 

Welch  assures  me  of  the  soundness  of  my  political 
views,  from  which  you  can  infer  that  he  has  not  va- 
cillated since  of  old. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  119 


GEORGE  ARTHUR  WILLEY 
Santa  Cruz,  Cal. 

Our  History  placed  him  in  the  year  of  1897  in  the 
drug  business  in  Boston,  with  a  wife,  a  graduate  of 
Vassar  College,  and  a  daughter,  Margaret  A.,  and 
son,  James  H.  Since  then  another  son  has  been 
born,  Arthur  Roby. 

George  quit  the  drug  business  and  varied  his  oc- 
cupation, teaching  and  using  his  musical  talent  in 
playing  church  organs  and  otherwise,  until  1915, 
when,  at  the  urgent  desire  of  his  older  son,  who  was 
connected  with  naval  matters,  he  went  to  Santa 
Cruz  to  give  attention  to  the  Armory  there  and  other 
government  property.  He  continued  in  that  work 
until  1917,  when  he  entered  the  employ  of  a 
real  estate  and  lumber  company  there,  looking  after 
tenements,  finding  time  to  preside  at  the  church 
organ  and  to  play  the  piano  with  profit,  and  withal, 
he  became  a  producer  of  eggs  in  quantity,  a  new 
mine  of  gold  in  California  which  has  opened  up 
more  recently.  His  well  known  musical  taste  was 
likely  to  call  forth  from  me  the  conclusion  that  it 
had  saved  him  from  the  "accursed  thirst  for  gold," 
but  his  letters  leaked  out  his  golden-egg  obsession, 
so  I  am  not  so  sure  about  his  safety. 

I  am  fully  justified  in  stating  that  he  is  in  a  happy 
frame  of  mind,  but  whether  that  will  be  affected  by 
the  egg-market  remains  to  be  proved.  To  be  a  Dea- 
con in  the  Congregational  Church,  and  a  teacher  of 
a  Bible  class,  such  as  he  is,  suggests  qualities  of 
heart  that  may  be  the  subject  of  green  envy  on  the 
part  of  many  of  our  class.     A  snap-shot  picture  of 


120         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

him  shows  a  full  beard  and  a  mustache,  hair  thick 
and  dark,  natty  attire,  healthy  fullness  of  face,  and 
his  letters  evince  a  contented  survey  of  life.  Any  of 
the  "boys"  who  are  disposed  to  open  a  contest  with 
him  as  to  cheerfulness  and  good  looks  can  try  the 
precarious  venture,  and  we  will  settle  it  at  our  re- 
union. 

His  daughter,  Margaret  A.,  graduate  of  Boston 
University,  also  school  of  Osteopathy,  practicing 
several  years,  married  a  minister,  Rev.  A.  F.  Travis, 
in  1911,  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  worker,  who  was  subsequent- 
ly drowned,  leaving  one  son,  and  she  now  lives  about 
two  hundred  miles  south  of  Santa  Cruz  where  she 
engages  in  gardening  with  success. 

The  son,  James  H.,  Lieut.  Naval  Reserves,  in  April 
1917  took  his  men  down  the  coast  and  through  the 
Panama  Canal ;  next  was  First  Navigation  Officer  on 
the  Dakota,  cruising  on  the  South  American  Coast  to 
discover  any  German  Naval  station;  next  he  was  in 
command  of  the  Vega,  with  a  crew  of  West  Point 
Students ;  next  Third  Officer  on  the  Leviathan,  bring- 
ing home  troops,  and  now  in  the  Merchant  Marine, 
running  between  San  Francisco  and  China.  He 
married  Jessie  P.  Parker  in  1906. 

The  other  son,  Arthur  Roby,  is  private  secretary 
of  the  American  Gas  Company  of  New  York  City, 
with  many  clerks  under  him  ,and  was  married  to 
Emily  Washburn  in  1920. 

Our  classmate's  wife  is  alive  and  well,  and,  be- 
sides being  busy  looking  after  him,  has  found  time  to 
travel  with  her  brother  almost  all  over  the  world. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  121 


GEORGE  FRED  WILLIAMS 
15  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Williams  on  the  1st  day  of  April,  1918,  (note  the 
date)  was  one  of  the  first  to  hail  me  as  the  new  Sec- 
retary, (appointed  by  three  pedagogues)  saying 
that  everybody  would  be  glad  of  the  action;  the 
truth  then,  but  I  have  come  to  the  opinion,  after 
four  months  of  work  testing  these  expressions,  that 
they  sprang  from  a  subjective  feeling  of  relief, 
rather  than  a  wise  estimate  of  the  enjoyments  of  the 
object  of  the  congratulations.  They  were  wise  old 
fellows.  However,  we  "live  and  learn,"  even  after 
three  score  years  and  ten.  There  have  been  great 
compensations  in  the  work  in  the  pleasures  of  early 
and  frank  contact  with  so  many  men  of  warm  and 
appreciative  hearts,  the  joys  of  first  information  as 
to  a  host  of  interesting  annals. 

Williams  and  Colby  were  seriously  interested  in 
September  1918,  in  an  attempt  to  start  a  movement 
to  bring  about  the  appointment  of  Miller  as  Ambas- 
sador to  the  court  of  St.  James,  but  he  poured  cold 
water  on  their  aspirations,  so  they  dropped  the  mat- 
ter. It  shows  the  strong  links  of  friendship  and  the 
"esprit  de  corps"  of  the  men  of  '72. 

I  have  a  letter  of  Jan.  29,  1921,  from  which  I  copy 
as  our  common  property,  namely: 

"My  dear  Barstow : 

My  history  since  1904  is  not  much. 

In  1911  I  crowned  my  professional  work  with  an 
argument  as  counsel  for  the  State  of  Oregon  and  sev- 


122         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

eral  other  states  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  in  defense  of  the  Initiative  and  Refer- 
endum provisions  of  the  Oregon  constitution;  The 
Court  sustained  their  constitutionality. 

In  1912  I  was  one  of  the  Managers  and  campaign- 
ers for  Champ  Clark  as  Democratic  Presidential  can- 
didate. Picking  the  loser  ended  my  leading  place 
in  politics. 

In  1913  my  sixty-one  years'  search  for  the  second 
best  woman  in  the  world  was  rewarded,  and  I  mar- 
ried her  June  14th;  her  name  was  Frances  Ames 
Hopkins. 

In  October  of  the  same  year,  I  was  appointed  by 
President  Wilson  Minister  Plenipotentiary  of  the 
United  States  to  Greece  and  Montenegro. 

From  Athens  in  June  1914,  I  visited  Albania  to 
investigate  a  massacre  of  Albanians  by  Greek  sol- 
diers and  to  report  upon  the  conditions  there.  I 
was  so  disgusted  with  the  wrongs  practiced  by  the 
Great  Powers  upon  the  Albanians  that  (in  accord- 
ance with  my  additional  title  as  Envoy-extraordin- 
ary) I  made  a  public  protest  which,  of  course,  I  fol- 
lowed up  with  my  resignation  as  Minister.  I  think 
it  the  most  decent  thing  I  have  done. 

Later  I  wrote  a  pamphlet  on  Albania,  a  copy  of 
which  I  send  you.  I  have  since  acted  as  counsel  for 
the  Albanians  in  the  United  States,  and  followed 
closely  the  developments  in  that  country,  which  in- 
clude her  admission  by  unanimous  vote  to  the 
League  of  Nations.  You  will  perceive,  therefore, 
that  I  no  longer  "cry  in  the  wilderness." 

At  present  as  counsel  for  the  counties  of  Massa- 
chusetts, I  am  preparing  a  defense  of  county  institu- 
tions against  State  attack  in  the  Legislature,  led  by 
the  Governor. 

I  am  in  perfect  health;   have  had  sciatica  and 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  123 

phlebitis,  but  no  physician  has  yet  cast  any  suspicion 
on  my  vitals. 

From  my  advantages,  I  have  contributed  my  fair 
share  to  the  service  of  my  country  and  people  with- 
out deducting  anything  for  what  some  regard  as 
success. 

At  eighty-five,  I  expect  to  moderate  my  activities. 
My  principal  Club  is  the  St.  Botolph,  Boston,  my  res- 
idence 1070  Beacon  St.,  Brookline. 
Sincerely  yours, 

Geo.  Fred  Williams.,, 


The  "Vox  clamantis  in  deserto"  may  not  have 
cried  with  effect,  perhaps  lost  in  the  Babel  of  voices 
which  have  come  from  European  conditions  in  the 
years  since,  but  his  pamphlet,  "Shkypetars,"  the 
real  name  of  the  people  of  Albania,  exhibits  the 
dominance  of  his  sense  of  justice  over  any  supposed 
limitations  of  Ministerial  functions.  His  scorn  of 
the  pitiless  usages  of  diplomacy,  commanding 
smothered  silence  when  confronted  with  cruel  op- 
pressions, and  his  decision,  when  he  returned  to 
Athens  from  Albania  in  1914,  to  resign  as  Minister 
that  he  might  in  this  country,  as  he  had  done  at 
Athens,  denounce  the  inhumanity  and  injustice  that 
he  had  seen  and  "tear  the  mask  from  European  dip- 
lomacy and  expose  its  face,  smeared  with  the 
blood  of  patriots  and  leering  in  lust  for  the  liberty 
of  a  brave  race,"  does  greater  credit  to  his  character 
than  the  mere  reputation  of  much  longer  service  as 
our  Minister  to  Greece. 

The  appeal  of  the  pamphlet  to  Americans  closes 
with  these  words:  "There  can  be  no  nobler  effort  of 
man  than  for  the  freedom  of  a  nation.  To  succor 
individuals  is  commendable  charity;  to  enfranchise 


124         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

a  people  is  to  expand  a  deed  of  today  into  the  infin- 
ite good  and  make  it  immortal. " 

That  was  a  very  fit  closing  to  the  opening  words: 
"In  the  dark  chambers  of  European  diplomacy 
Albania  has  been  tortured  for  centuries.  Even  now, 
hollow-eyed  with  pain  and  hunger,  it  stretches  forth 
gaunt  hands  for  justice  and  liberty;  yet  in  vain. 
But  the  wages  of  sin  is  death  and  a  just  Providence 
may  speak  in  the  fact  that  Europe's  present  carnage 
springs  straight  from  the  loins  of  her  Albanian  poli- 
tics." 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  125 


JAMES  TRASK  WOODBURY 
Francestown,  N.  H. 

Since  being  called  away  from  teaching  in  1876  to 
conduct  the  affairs  of  his  father's  farm  in  the  town 
where  he  was  born,  our  classmate  has  followed 
farming  diligently,  making  use  of  his  education  so 
far  as  it  was  helpful  in  farming  and  useful  in  the 
community  in  the  various  ways  common  to  a  New 
Hampshire  town.  He  is  a  thoroughly  reliable  citi- 
zen, dependable  and  responsive  to  every  civic  duty. 

His  wife  is  fulfilling  the  duties  of  a  competent  and 
excellent  consort.  Their  daughter,  Mary  E.,  grad- 
uated from  the  Plymouth  Normal  School  in  1905 
and  taught  school  until  her  marriage  in  1909  to 
Arthur  J.  Miller,  a  farmer  honored  in  the  town. 
They  have  a  son  and  two  daughters. 

The  son  of  our  classmate,  James  L.,  attended  the 
N.  H.  State  College  at  Durham  for  two  years.  In 
October  1908  he  married  Mary  A.  Miller,  graduate 
of  Plymouth  Normal  School,  and  they  lived  with  his 
father  upon  the  farm  until  the  death  of  James  L.  in 
October  1918.  His  widow  is  now  teaching  in 
Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  where  their  son,  Charles  H.,  is  at 
school. 

Our  classmate  is  in  good  health,  though  a  little 
lame,  is  Chairman  of  the  Ex.  Committee  of  the  Uni- 
tarian Church,  Overseer  of  the  Poor  for  his  town, 
and  in  politics  a  Republican.  His  son-in-law  has 
been  with  him  on  the  farm  since  the  son,  James  L., 
died,  and  is  a  reliable  helper. 

We  all  know  the  quiet  tastes  and  shyness  of 
"Jim,"  but  he  ought  to  anticipate  the  glad  reception 


126         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

which  men  who  touched  elbows  for  four  years  and 
then  parted  for  fifty  years  will  give  an  estimable  com- 
rade. He  will  see  how  the  mellowing  light  of  long 
observation  and  experience  crystalizes  into  high  ap- 
preciation of  those  whose  lot  has  been  cast  in  the 
stony  fields  of  toil  where  to  double  the  blades  of 
grass  is  no  small  achievement,  and  to  "tickle"  the 
soil  and  make  it  laugh  and  pour  out  grain  and  fruit 
is  more  than  a  joke. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  127 


THOMAS  WILSON  DORR  WORTHEN 
Concord,  N.  H. 

Worthen  resigned  as  Professor  of  Mathematics  at 
Dartmouth  and  was  placed  on  the  "Emeritus"  list  at 
the  end  of  the  year  1910-11,  and  was  appointed  by 
the  Gov.  on  the  Public  Service  Commission  of  New 
Hampshire,  June,  1911.  This  Commission  was  es- 
tablished in  1911  to  take  the  place  of  the  Railroad 
Commission,  with  greatly  enlarged  jurisdiction  and 
functions.  Under  its  supervision  are  Public  Utilities 
of  every  kind,  telegraph,  telephone,  gas  and  electric 
light,  heat  and  power,  public  water  supplies,  rail- 
roads and  street  railways,  etc.  The  Commission 
consists  of  three  persons  appointed  by  the  Governor 
and  he  was  one  of  the  original  appointees  and  has 
since  then  been  appointed  twice,  the  later  terms  be- 
ing six  years. 

It  is  an  unwritten  law  of  practice  that  there 
should  be  one  member  of  the  minority  political  party 
on  the  board,  and  he  has  filled  the  Democratic  posi- 
tion. The  duties  of  the  board  and  its  comprehens- 
ive work  seemed  at  the  start  to  call  for  at  least  one 
member  possessing  in  an  eminent  degree  a  special 
training  and  experience  of  a  scientific  and  mathe- 
matical character.  Questions  of  fact,  involving  the 
use  of  those  qualifications,  come  before  the  board, 
also  intricate  questions  of  law,  and  while  two  law- 
yers of  recognized  superior  ability  have  usually  been 
on  the  board,  nevertheless,  every  member  needs  to 
be  of  keen  reasoning  powers  in  order  to  be  able  to 
understand  with  the  aid  of  the  others  all  such  ques- 
tions of  law  as  arise.     Their  field  of  law  is  quite 


128         HISTORY  ACADEMIC  CLASS  1872 

special,  and  authorities  in  other  jurisdictions  upon 
similar  questions  have  to  be  consulted,  critically  ex- 
amined, and  applied  so  far  as  found  satisfactory. 

Worthen  has  proven  to  be  a  valuable  associate  on 
questions  involving  science  and  mathematics  as  ap- 
plied to  facts,  and  a  helpful  member  on  questions  of 
law.  It  goes  without  saying  that  his  sterling  char- 
acter can  always  be  depended  on  for  strict  impar- 
tiality. The  Commission  is  a  court  of  far  from  in- 
ferior jurisdiction  in  any  popular  sense.  Its  orders 
and  decisions  are  published  in  many  volumes,  ap- 
peals are  rather  infrequent,  and  its  rulings  on  law 
and  findings  of  facts  are  rarely  set  aside  or  seriously 
modified  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Appeals.  Its 
biennial  recommendations  to  the  Legislature  have 
always  been  received  with  respectful  consideration 
and  quite  generally  followed. 

It  can  be  thus  seen  that  this,  his  later  work,  has 
been  one  of  honor  to  him  and  our  class.  Our  His- 
tory in  1904  placed  "Tom"  on  the  right  pedestal  and 
his  superstructure  of  quasi-judicial  service  fits  well 
on  the  top  of  his  educational  work,  being  in  a  way 
somewhat  germane  to  it. 

His  daughter,  Louise  Wilcox  Worthen,  by  his  first 
wife,  Smith  1901,  B.  S.,  taught  four  years  in  the 
University  of  New  York,  worked  as  a  Chemist  in 
Worcester,  Mass.  nine  years,  did  post  graduate 
work  at  Cornell  for  two  years,  taking  courses  in 
Dietetics,  Sanitation,  Domestic  and  Social  Science, 
and  since  then  has  been  and  is  now  working  along 
these  lines  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

His  first  son  by  his  present  wife,  Thacher  W.,  1907 
Dart.  A.  B.  and  A.  M.  and  M.  D.  in  1911,  spent  three 
and  a  half  years  in  New  York  Hospitals  and  a  half 
year  in  German  Hospitals  where  he  was  caught  at 
the  beginning  of  the  war  and  for  five  months  had  to 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  129 

perform  surgical  operations,  etc.  He  began  prac- 
tice as  a  physician,  1915,  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  where 
he  continues  to  practice.  He  married  Mary  Paine, 
May  6,  1915,  and  they  have  three  children,  Eliza- 
beth S.,  Mary  and  Frederick  P.  Thacher  W.  volun- 
teered in  the  war  and  was  commissioned  Lieut,  in 
the  Medical  Corps  a  short  time  before  the  armistice 
was  signed. 

Worthen's  second  son,  Joseph  W.,  1909,  Dart.  A. 
B.,  B.  C.  L.  Oxford  1913,  Rhodes  Scholar,  one  year 
in  Harvard  Law  School,  1909-10,  practiced  law  in 
Boston,  1913-14,  Concord,  N.  H.,  1914-19,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Holmes  and  Worthen,  and  has 
been  practicing  law  in  Boston  since  1919.  He  mar- 
ried Dorothy  Bullard,  Aug.  7,  1915,  and  they  have 
two  children,  Mary  and  Thomas.  He  tried  to  get 
into  the  war  at  Plattsburg  and  other  places,  but 
failed  on  account  of  defects  in  eye-sight.  While  in 
New  Hampshire  he  was  prominent  in  various  state 
activities. 


CHANDLER  SCHOOL  GRADUATES 


FRANK  HENRY  CHAMBERLIN 
Hudson,  Mass. 

Mr.  Chamberlain  was  born,  Jan.  26,  1850,  at  Hud- 
son, Mass.  Following  his  graduation  in  the  Chand- 
ler Department  of  the  College,  from  1877  to  1885  he 
carried  on  the  sale  of  clothing  at  Elgin,  111.;  from 
1886  to  1894,  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
shoes  at  Hudson,  Mass.;  in  1895-'96  and  '97  was 
salesman  of  shoes  in  Boston,  in  1898  and  '99  manu- 
facturing shoes  at  Newport,  N.  H.,  and  beginning  in 
1901  has  since  then  been  Paymaster  and  Freight 
Traffic  Manager  for  the  Apsley  Rubber  Co.,  and  re- 
sided in  Hudson,  Mass. 

He  married  Sarah  L.  Hall  of  Upton,  Mass.  in  1877, 
and  they  have  one  child,  Mary  Louise  Chamberlain. 
She  is  a  graduate  of  Vassar  College  and  won  the 
Borden  scholarship  for  one  year's  study  in  Europe; 
later  worked  for  the  "Consumers  League,"  for  sever- 
al years  was  on  "The  Survey,"  and  now  lives  in 
New  York  City. 

Chamberlain  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Hudson 
Board  of  Trade  since  its  foundation  in  1887. 

He  was  present  at  our  reunion  in  1912  and  evinced 
unabated  interest  in  the  College  and  his  class. 


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AUGUSTUS  FREEMAN  ELDER 
Died,  1874 

He  is  recorded  in  the  College  Catalogue  as  an 
Engineer. 


WILLIAM  E.  HIGGINS 
Born,  Aug.  1,  1849;  died,  Feb.  1899 

He  was  of  the  Chandler  Department,  B.  S.  and  an 
L.  L.  B.  of  the  University  of  Michigan,  1879.  He 
died  at  Yazoo  City,  Miss. 


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DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  133 

lives  at  home  with  her  parents  and  works  in  Boston. 

The  only  son,  Laurence  Grenville,  born  1892, 
graduate  of  Cornell,  1914,  took  the  military  training 
there,  was  Colonel  of  the  regiment,  member  of 
"Scabbard  and  Blade,"  and  the  year  after  his  grad- 
uation elected  Lieut.  Col.  of  "The  National  Society 
of  Scabbard  and  Blade."  He  married  Gertrude  Hay 
of  Salem,  Mass.  in  1916,  and  they  have  two  children, 
Jeannette  A.  and  Donald  E. 

Laurence  G.  trained  at  Plattsburg,  was  commis- 
sioned a  Captain  in  the  310th  Infantry,  a  New  York 
regiment,  sailed  "Over-seas"  May  1918  and  returned 
in  June  1919.  He  was  in  the  U.  S.  Army,  78th  Div., 
and  took  part  in  three  "major  operations;"  (1)  St. 
Mihiel  Drive;  (2)  Limey  Sector;  (3)  Argonne  Drive, 
on  account  of  which  three  he  was  authorized  to  wear 
three  stars  on  his  service  bars.  Besides  this  he  was 
in  the  Reserves  with  British,  back  of  Arras.  He 
was  severely  wounded.  Nov,  1.  1918.  in  the  Argonne 
Drive  which  was  just  east  of  Grand  Pre.  by  a  ball 
through  his  body  three  inches  from  the  spinal 
column. 

Before  joining  the  Army  he  had  the  advertising 
for  Seribner's  Magazine  in  the  New  England  States. 
and  is  now  with  the  Blackmail  Agency,  New  York 
City. 


134    HISTORY  CHANDLER  DEPT.  CLASS  1872 


ANDREW  LOUIS  MacMILLAN 
Hanover,  Mass. 

After  graduating  in  the  Chandler  Department,  B. 
S.,  he  taught  school  for  several  years.  He  was  As- 
sistant Principal,  instructing  in  Science,  for  one  year 
in  the  Fort  Plain  Institute  at  Fort  Plain,  N.  Y.,  one 
year  Principal  of  the  Rensselaerville  Academy,  N. 
Y.  He  graduated  from  the  Albany  Medical  Col- 
lege, N.  Y.,  in  1879  and  practiced  medicine  in  Bar- 
nard, Vt.  from  1879  to  1887  when  he  moved  to 
Hanover,  Mass.  where  he  has  practiced  his  profes- 
sion ever  since. 

He  married  Clara  A.  Wood  of  Barnard  in  1880 
and  they  have  one  son,  A.  L.  MacMillan  Jr.,  born  at 
Barnard  in  1882,  graduate  of  Dartmouth  in  1905,  A. 
B.,  Harvard  Medical  School  in  1909,  and  he  lives  at 
Concord,  N.  H.  where  he  practices  his  profession  of 
Physician.  He  married  Ray  Hancock  in  1918  and 
they  have  one  daughter,  born  Nov.  12,  1920. 

Our  classmate  remarks  in  his  letter  to  me  that, 
"No  high  honors  have  come"  to  him,  but  I  notice  that 
he  was  Superintendent  of  schools  in  Barnard,  Vt.  for 
seven  years  and  that  he  has  been  Chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Health  in  Hanover,  Mass.  for  twenty-five 
years,  indicating  the  respect  and  confidence  of  those 
communities,  and  withal,  his  usefulness. 

His  practice  as  a  physician  is  general,  he  is  in  good 
health  and  expresses  the  hope  of  being  with  those  of 
us  who  are  spared  to  attend  our  reunion  in  1922. 

We  remember  well  his  presence  at  our  reunion  in 
1912,  and  that  he  exhibited  a  warm  feeling  towards 
his  classmates  and  the  college. 


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EDWARD  DEAN  MERRILL 
Rutland,  Vt. 

He  graduated  in  1872  from  the  Chandler  Dept. 
of  the  college,  B.  S.,  and  is  recorded  in  the  Catalogue 
of  1911  as  engaged  in  business. 

Of  several  letters  written  to  Mr.  Merrill  I  received 
a  reply  to  but  one.  He  wrote  Mar.  17,  1921,  that  he 
was  something  of  a  gardner  and  doing  other  farm- 
ing in  a  small  way.  He  has  not  kept  up  his  interest 
in  college  men  or  college  affairs  for  reasons  not 
stated  by  him. 


GYLES  MERRILL 
Born  Nov.  23,  1849;  died,  Aug.  3,  1880. 

He  married  Mary  Burnham  of  Haverhill,  Mass., 
and  so  far  as  ascertained  they  had  no  children.  He 
engaged  in  the  wholesale  Drug  business  at  Haver- 
hill, Mass. 


GRANVILLE  ARTHUR  MILLER 

He  was  of  the  Chandler  Dept.  of  the  college,  B.  S., 
was  an  Engineer  at  Orange  Belt,  Fla.,  also  Nassau, 
Bahama  Is.,  but  nothing  has  been  learned  about  his 
career  since,  or  whether  he  is  yet  alive. 


136   HISTORY  CHANDLER  DEPT.  CLASS  1872 


ROBERT  GORDON  PIKE 
Born,  July  28,  1851;  died,  Jan.  9,  1917. 

A  graduate  of  the  Chandler  Department  of  Dart- 
mouth College  in  1872,  B.  S.,  given  the  honorary  de- 
gree of  A.  M.  by  the  college  in  1908,  Mr.  Pike  en- 
gaged in  engineering  and  taught  school  until  1878, 
when  he  began  to  study  law  with  Chief  Justice 
Charles  Doe,  a  great  privilege,  for  C.  J.  Doe  was  one 
of  the  greatest  judges  of  this  state.  Pike  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1881,  and  at  once  began  practice 
at  Dover,  N.  H. 

In  1887  he  became  city  solicitor  of  that  city,  serv- 
ing until  1889,  was  appointed  Judge  of  Probate  of 
Strafford  County  in  1883,  served  until  he  resigned  in 
1896,  when  he  accepted  the  position  of  associate 
justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  and  so 
served  until  the  court  was  abolished  in  1901,  when 
two  new  courts  were  established  in  its  place,  and  he 
then  became  an  associate  justice  of  the  Superior 
Court,  serving  as  such  until  November  1913,  when 
he  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  that  Court  to  fill 
a  vacancy  caused  by  death,  and  served  as  such  until 
his  death. 

The  Chief  Justice's  standing  in  the  courts  was  al- 
ways high  and  he  was  always  held  by  the  bar  and 
everybody  who  knew  his  fine  qualities  of  mind  and 
heart  in  the  greatest  esteem.  It  was  truly  said  by 
one  who  wrote  a  Memoriam  that  "he  presided  over 
the  sessions  of  court  with  dignity,  firmness,  patience, 
courtesy  and  impartiality. "  In  this  Memoriam  pub- 
lished in  the  Proceedings  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Bar  Association  in  1917,  it  was  said,  among  other 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  137 

meritorious  things:  "While  a  member  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  from  1896  to  1901,  he  did  his  share  of 
the  law  work  of  that  Court.  His  opinions  were 
clear,  concise,  and  logical,  which  gave  him  high 
rank  as  a  law  writer,  and  will  perpetuate  his  reputa- 
tion as  a  keen  and  painstaking  member  of  the 
Court."  I  knew  him  as  a  very  friendly  and  sincere 
man. 

He  was  actively  connected  with  educational  mat- 
ters and  a  Visitor  of  the  Chandler  Foundation  of 
Dartmouth  from  1902. 

These  lines  from  Whittier  were  found  in  his  scrap 
book  and  quoted  in  the  Memoir: 

"Search  thine  own  heart,  What  paineth  thee 

"In  others,  in  thyself  may  be; 

"All  dust  is  frail,  all  flesh  is  weak; 

"Be  thou  the  true  man  thou  dost  seek." 

He  and  his  sister  had  their  home  together  and  he 
never  married. 


138    HISTORY  CHANDLER  DEPT.  CLASS  1872 


SAMUEL  QUINCY  ROBINSON 
Born,  Jan.  29,  1853;  died,  Nov.  6,  1899 

He  was  of  the  Chandler  Dept.  of  the  college,  B. 
S.,  and  Harvard  Medical  School  of  1876. 

Was  House  Officer  in  the  Massachusetts  General 
Hospital  for  some  two  years,  several  years  in  the 
Navy,  and  was  in  charge  of  the  Marine  Hospital  in 
Chelsea  for  a  time,  then  went  into  the  Army  as  As- 
sistant Surgeon,  served  in  the  Spanish  War  and  died 
from  disease  contracted  in  Cuba.  His  rank  in  the 
Army  was  that  of  Major  at  the  time  of  his  death. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  139 


LESLIE  C.  WEAD 
Born,  Feb.  17,  1851,  died,  March  18,  1918 

In  '72  he  received  the  degree,  B.  S.,  in  the  Chand- 
ler Department  of  Dartmouth,  and  that  of  L.  L.  B.  in 
the  Albany  Law  School  in  1874.  He  was  twin 
brother  of  Chester  Horton  Wead  of  the  Academic 
Dept.  He  began  to  practice  law  at  Malone,  N.  Y.} 
but  upon  the  death  of  his  father  took  up  the  family 
interest  in  the  manufacture  of  paper  there,  and 
aside  from  that  was  successively  Vice-President  and 
President  of  the  National  Bank  of  Malone  and  also 
Chairman  of  the  School  Committee. 

In  1877  he  married  Kate  Whitcomb  of  Boston. 
In  1886  he  retired  from  manufacturing  and  took  up 
the  practice  of  law  in  Malone  until  1890,  when  he 
moved  to  Boston  and  became  a  member  of  the  real 
estate  firm  of  Whitcomb,  Wead  &  Co.  In  1910  the 
firm  dissolved  and  he  continued  as  real  estate  ex- 
pert and  trustee.  On  first  coming  to  Boston  he 
made  his  home  in  Brookline,  serving  at  various  times 
as  Moderator  of  town  meetings,  Trustee  of  the  Pub- 
lic Library,  member  of  the  Republican  town  commit- 
tee and  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Con- 
vention in  1904. 

He  visited  England  as  member  of  a  committee  to 
consult  about  the  extension  of  the  right  of  public 
domain,  under  appointment  of  Gov.  Bates.  In  later 
years  he  resided  in  Boston  and  had  a  summer  home 
at  Marblehead. 

Beside  a  widow,  he  left  two  sons,  Frederick  W. 
Wead  of  Boston  and  Harold  K.  Wead  of  West  New- 
ton, also  two  grandchildren. 


140  HISTORY  CLASS  1872 


SONS  OF  '72  IN  WAR  SERVICE 

*Fred  D.  Barker,  Lieut.  American  Red  Cross,  Field 

Service,  Front  in  France; 
Samuel   C.  Bartlett,   Capt.   U.   S.   Army  Engineers, 

"Over-seas;" 
Edwin  R.  Bartlett,  in  charge  of  plant  manufacturing 

explosives,  gas,  etc.; 
John  F.  Bartlett,  Lieut.  U.  S.  Army,  Field  Service 

and  Aero  Squadron,  "Over-seas;" 
Stillman  Batchellor,  Lieut.  Engineers,  U.  S.  Army, 

Mexican  border; 
Fred  C.  Batchellor,  private  U.  S.  Army  Infantry; 
Luman  J.  Beede,  private  U.  S.  Marines,  Recruiting 

service  in  U.  S. ; 
Charles  E.    Clement,   Lieut.   U.   S.   Army  Infantry, 

"Over-seas;" 
*  Charles  Loomis  Dana,  Jr.,   private  U.  S.   Marines, 

"Over-seas;" 
George   M.  French,   Sergt,   U.   S.   Army  Inft.   26th 

(Y.  D.)  Division,  "Over-seas;" 
*Robert  A.  French,  Capt.  U.  S.  Army,  assigned  In- 
telligence Bureau,  War  Dept. ; 
Herbert  L.   Galbraith,  Sergt.   Coast  Artillery,   also 

Cavalry,  U.  S.  Army; 
Harry  Hutchins,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  England  and 

France,  1918-1919; 
Laurence  G.  Meads,  Capt.  U.  S.  Army,  310th  Inft., 

78th  Div.  "Over-seas;" 
Arthur  C.  Merrill,  Lieut.  U.  S.  Army,  63rd  Coast 

Artillery,  "Over-seas;" 
Charles  N.   Sawyer,  Lieut.   Col.  U.  S.   Army  Inft., 

Signal  Corps,  "Over-seas;" 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  141 

John  P.  Slack,  Chief  Steward,  Navy,  S.  S.  Province- 
town,  "Over-seas ;" 

Philip  W.  Stackpole,  private,  U.  S.  Army  Infantry, 
"Over-seas;" 

Charles  H.  Talbot,  Capt.  U.  S.  Army  Infantry, 
"Over-seas ;" 

Ralph  Talbot,  Jr.,  Col.  U.  S.  Army,  Cavalry,  Reg- 
ulars, "Over-seas;" 

Robert  E.  Talbot,  Major  U.  S.  Army,  Medical  Corps, 
"Over-seas;" 

Laurence  D.  Talbot,  Lieut.  U.  S.  Army,  Regulars; 

Arthur  H.  Ward,  private  U.  S.  Army  Motor  Corps; 

James  E.  Willey,  Lieut.  Naval  Reserves,  Transport 
Service,  "Over-seas;" 

Thacher  W.  Worthen,  Lieut.  U.  S.  Army,  Medical 
Corps. 


142  HISTORY  CLASS  1872 


DAUGHTERS  OF  '72  IN  WAR  SERVICE 

Marjorie  Dana,  Services  in  Belgium  and  France; 
Alice  Evans,  Medical  Dept.  Reconstruction  Aide  in 

France ; 
Marian  Farmer,  in  charge  of  1,000  operatives  in  Air 

Plane  Factory; 
Ruth  H.  French,  Intelligence  Bureau,  War  Dept., 

over  one  year; 
Helen  L.  Slack,  Reconstruction  Aide,  Psychopathy, 

Camps  Dix  and  Carlisle. 


DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE  143 


STATISTICS 

On  account  of  incomplete  data  as  to  the  Chandler 
Department,  I  omit  any  summary  as  to  it.  These 
facts  relate  to  the  Academic  Department.  Number 
who  at  graduation  and  afterwards  received  degrees 
of  A.  B.,  73.  Now  living  41.  Deceased,  32.  Mar- 
ried, 66.  Children  born,  152.  Grandchildren,  75. 
Largest  number  of  grandchildren  of  any  one,  8, 
Clement  father. 

Taking  those  who  followed  mainly  certain  occu- 
pations, I  find  as  follows:  Lawyers,  33,  of  whom  19 
have  died.  Clergymen,  9,  of  whom  4  have  died. 
Physicians,  7,  of  whom  2  have  died.  Teachers,  7,  of 
whom  3  have  died.  Journalists,  4,  of  whom  1  has 
died.  Business,  7,  of  whom  3  have  died.  Farmers, 
4,  of  whom  none  have  died.  Civil  Engineers,  2,  both 
alive. 

Greatest  age  of  any  who  have  died,  76  years,  3 
months;  greatest  age  of  any  one  alive,  76  years,  3 
mos.,  Feb.  10,  1921;  youngest  of  the  living,,  68 
years,  5  mos.,  Feb.  19,  1921. 

Average  age  of  the  deceased,  65  years,  3  mos; 
average  age  of  the  living,  approximately  72  years; 
average  age  of  both  living  and  dead,  approximately, 
68  years;  age  of  youngest  dying,  36  years;  next 
youngest,  43  years,  6  mos. 

Honorary  degrees  conferred  since  graduation,  L. 
L.  D.?  3;  D.  Sc,  2;  Lit.  D.,  1;  Ph.  D.,  1. 

Ministers  to  foreign  countries,  1 ;  Consuls,  1 ; 
Judges  of  higher  courts,  1 ;  Probate  Judges,  3 ;  Dis- 
trict or  Police  courts,  2.  Of  the  Chandler  Dept. 
one,  Pike,  became  Chief  Justice  of  a  higher  court. 


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